Posted on 08/02/2017 9:06:10 AM PDT by pgkdan
It seems possible that plans are already being implemented to invade North Korea. I am not speaking of contingency plans; I am speaking of a date certain, a definite schedule, with step number one being the recent flyover of B1-B bombers near the North Korean border. I am not, of course, privy to any such information, but President Trump seemed supremely confident when he made his assurances that (inexact quote) "we will handle North Korea."
The reason for all this is that the Norks (as the North Koreans are informally referred to in military parlance) have nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which pose as close to a clear and present danger as we dare to allow without taking decisive, pre-emptive action – immediately.
The only constraint now is feasibility. Are we able to attack and win? Can we accept the consequences of action versus those of inaction?
The consequences might be cataclysmic. North Korea reputedly has thousands of artillery guns in caves, within firing range of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea. Seoul is a huge metropolis with some eight million or more inhabitants. I've been there, and it is easily comparable to most large American cities. Those artillery weapons can be expected to deploy within minutes, to fire an overwhelming barrage, and to kill as many as a million people within the first hour of a major war. There can be no doubt that the Norks would do this in the first moment they perceived an existential threat.
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I question the million casualties. They have a responsibility for their own civil defense. If there were a lot of civil defense activity going on in Seoul, I would think that would be a tell.
We just need to be able to quell all rocket launches from NORK.
We should be planning a single strike that takes out little fat boy.
Or at least causes him to crap his pants and play nice.
And to go in and get the Pueblo.
Tomorrow....
History teaches us that it is less costly to act now than later.
Nikki Haley said in the UN the other day that the time for talking is over. In diplomatic speak, that would seem to me to be a very grave statement.
One day strike to hit all the op centers of all his military bases AND hopefully take out little fat boy.
Time to erase the Norks from the world stage. We cannot have nut jobs with nuclear-tipped missiles, making first strike threats against us. Just incinerate the entire country and be done with it.
MacArthur was right - and Truman was an idiot.
OK here’s that plan. A one-day strike to all the airstrips on all his military bases, and a major strike on wherever they think little fat boy is.
Followed by an announcement that were are coming to take the Pueblo - “Please stay out of our way”
Situations change.
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Nuking North Korea is impossible without devastating effects to South Korea.
History also teaches us that it’s usually later.
Fat boy should be taken like Saddam Hussein. Alive.
Artillery doesn't fire by itself. It takes men to move them, and a crew to fire them. Thousands of men and command and control.
3-4 tactical nukes and a robust counter-battery fire plan negates this. Messy, but it should never have been allowed to go this far.
It would make ‘Shock and Awe’ look like a parlor game.
Massive amounts of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and total bombing back to the stone age all coordinated to Time Over Target and they would be totally destroyed within a few minutes.........................
Nuke the NORKS!!!
Who said nuke? I just mean in diplomatic terms that is a very very serious thing to say. But something’s gonna happen. The multi-stage ICBM was a bridge too far.
?? GO ask SLIM PICKINS!
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