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.
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Chris
Using ERW's against masses of DPRK infantry before they've attacked would turn the South Koreans against us. OK, we'll leave the million-man army there and the South Koreans can deal with them. I'm OK with that, too... I was just trying to save Seoul. But if they don't care about that, I don't either.
The main thing is stopping Kim from being able to make and sell atom bombs. If he does that, the atom bombs will be going off over here, and if I'm Bush, I'm not going to let that happen. So his reactor has to go, and frankly, his regime has to go because I don't know that he doesn't have other reactors.
We simply cannot allow that man to produce atom bombs for money. He already sells missiles to anything that walks, the nukes will be the same way. We just can't care what anybody thinks or says... we're talking about atom bombs going off in American cities. Nope. Not gonna have it. Wouldn't be prudent.