Protecting your country by engaging your enemy might be an option.
The problem with Kim is that if we try and ignore him, he will up the ante and do something even more provocative the next time, like an above ground nuclear test, just to prove he is serious.
I am increasingly convinced that NoKo has a serious deathwish, that there are probably people in the NoKo military that are far worse than Kim, and when if finally comes down to where the rubber meets the road, we are going to be forced to slaughter millions of the little, yellow, dog-eating bastards...
This will not end politely...
Not with "O" as The One who the guy with the football would have to report to.
But this is good evidence that deterrence works, if only one way at times.
When I clicked on the source link, my Norton Anti-Virus pgm posted a msg that it is a reported attack site.
See that pod under the right intake? That's my little contribution to the effort. Use that, and it would be "bombs away" before the NKs even knew they were there.
It would be an exciting ride though. Coming back might be even more exciting and "interesting".
SK has an option. Develop a nuclear weapon. This will rattle NK backer China and up the ante on NK. Start something and war will be with nukes. SK should start a first strike strategy and use it once she attains the ability to do it because technically SK is still at war with NK. The US should tacitly back this effort. Nuclear weapons is the only way Korea can stop repeating her tragic history of being a piece of meat on the street while her powerful neighbors, China, Russia and Japan acted like dogs as they fight over her.
They are right...limited options for sure. They only have one option and it is to fully solve their problem to the North.
Perhaps Pres Lee should seek advice from Mossad on how to handle this sort of thing. Seems it is time for ‘take-out’, Mossad style. Mossad invented covert ops that work in this century, as well as the last half of the last.
Of course, in an open conflict I would want the S. Koreans and the Israelis as allies. Maybe they could combine forces in taking out the new Nukie states that restively threaten their existence.
Maanwhile, on June 26th, we will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War—a war that is still is progress, having never been ended.
“A military response would be too risky...”
Yeah, you might win. Then you’re really screwed. It’s like beating up the bully with the really ugly girlfriend.