what is the plan to take Kimbo out in 10 minutes with a million casualties? I missed it. You don't really want to go there do you, just as soon as Saddam is l'histoire? I cannot find that thread at the moment... it was something about "smart spears." Part of the plan did involve so-called "enhanced radiation weapons" to, umm, er, kill the million-man army amassed at the DMZ with the 120,000 artillery pieces. They could basically be made to die before they could get off a shot. At that point, Kim's worst is not that bad.
Do I want to go there? Of course not. But... do I want a nutcase who sells weapons on the open market to have a nuclear bomb factory and plutonium-extraction reactors? I want that less. The world will be one terrible place if Kim Jong Il gets an atom bomb factory. So, I do not let him have an atom bomb factory. Not at any cost. No way. No how. No matter what anybody says. Kim Jong Il does not get an atom bomb factory. Period.
You'll thank me someday.
Actually, you don't want to go there, either.
"Smart Spears" are super-dense projectiles that would be fired at extremely high speeds at the core of the Pyogbyon Reactor from, say, a B-2 or an Aurora. The object of the exercise is to cause a core meltdown, thus making the plant unusable.
Problem is, we don't know how widespread the radiation would be. We do know that with Smart Spears, you don't get explosions with flying radiation. Rather, you get deep holes in the ground.
Using ERW's against masses of DPRK infantry before they've attacked would turn the South Koreans against us. Remember, deep down these people are family.
Agree that we hold the fundamentally stronger hand, btw. As I wrote in another thread-Kim is lots of loud, angry, aggressive intimidating talk. A guy who talks loud like that has one of two things in his hand: a busted flush or a small penis.
Be Seeing You,
Chris