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The Kenyan won’t do it.
Here's my war-monger take: Pull our Troops out and let South Korea deal it, until the Norks hit them too hard and we send some Trident-based nukes over and put out the last of their lights as seen from satellites. Since that won't happen, how about massive air-bombing and cruise missles?
I'm so sick of this collateral damage wussification (remember Dresdan?). I would rather their children die than ours or our Allies. I'm done with these wanna be nuke a-holes. Just friggin kill them now while we have the upper hand.
Not gonna happen with the current strain on US forces... plus, the South Koreans have long been trying to reduce the presence of US forces in their country.
So why should we put our troops into a country that doesn’t want them?
It’s been abundantly clear for many, many years that the only American troop presence that will stop North Korean provocation is an American troop presence in Pyongyang.
That, however, is something we are unlikely to see any time soon.
Give the South a couple of nukes, pull our boys out and let Korea defend itself.
Tell China to stay out of it.
Only THEN will they know we are "serious".
I'm talking true hardball here.
Considering nothing else has worked to-date.
No. Just no.
Now is not the time because of the recent NK actions. But I don’t think having a bunch of American troops hostage to the actions of NK is a good idea and would withdraw them.
SK is a wealthy, advanced nation that can afford it’s own defense. I would sell them weaponry and support them with air and naval assets in the event of a war. But American troops on the ground just make it easy for the SK’s not to have a sufficient defense capability themselves.
“U.S. expert calls for increasing American troop presence in S. Korea to stop NK provocations”
That will work about as well as raising taxes on cigarettes to get people to stop smoking.
Where are the troops going to come from?
With a 10 Division Regular Army and a Three MEF Marine Corps, we just don’t have the horses to get it done, not with two major deployments going on at the moment.
Even if the troops existed, we don’t have the logistics to support them.
The ROK is on it’s own on this one unless they accept help from the IJSDF, which is really unlikely.