Damn! Why don’t we tell Kim what we’re going to do so he can strike first.
China’s got the lead to convince fat boy to stand down......or else. We’re prepared apparently if he chooses not to listen to XI. Kim Un isn’t going to do a thing that will rile China much further than it already has....without China they don’t eat....and the Koreans aren’t willing to go thru another
famine as they did in the 90s....just not going to happen.
“Damn! Why don’t we tell Kim what we’re going to do so he can strike first.”
Precisely. Talk it up to sound like the Chinese are selling him out, bring a task group marginally within his striking range, wait for him to miscalculate, and then end it with authority. Strike his artillery near the DMZ with everything conventional we have, from the air and with counterbattery fire.
My worry is the Chinese offering to “help” and ending up controlling some or all of the North. We should be prepared to put them in check in the South China Sea virtually instantly should the NK situation go hot, and make it crystal clear they will lose more than they could gain if they intervene in the North.
A Kim first strike might be a good thing.