[jazminerose]

A lot more BO blathering on TV.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It would look like Obama blaming Bush.

[DallasDeb]

This has been on my mind recently. My son flies one of the two bombers mentioned in the article.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I think North Korea would collapse rather quickly.

[Cyclone59]

I’d send a nuke, a really big one! Followed by a sternly written note:

“go back in your hole, or I will send another one”

[Vermont Lt]

The South Koreans do not really want these hopeless cases on the soil of their flourishing consumer society. The Chinese, who have a Korean-speaking province that borders North Korea, are likewise unwilling to suffer the influx of desperate people that is in our future."

So does this mean that the world would be better off with their complete annihilation? It sounds very, very, harsh. But is that the only alternative? I hope we have evolved beyond that.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Many dead people

[RexBeach]

Another war there would be a nightmare.

And if thee nuclear balloon goes up, all bets are off for it to be contained to the peninsula.

OMG.

[Cheetahcat]

60 years in the Democrat making!

[Genoa]

China sees NK being self-destructive and foolish. They will move to stop this and install better government, from their POV, in the North, to stabilize and keep the NK masses in NK. Then SK will make their own peace with the newly Chinafied NK. Obama will reach out and engage with China when this is over.

[wilco200]

It’ll look like the 5th hole at Ink Meadows Golf Club in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

Zero could care less about a the Korean War Part Deux

It’ll happen, thousands will be killed, Obama will do nothing.

[RC2]

If China backed N.Korea in a war, I believe they would lose all of their exports to the US and other countries. The best thing that China could do is take over N. Korea and stop the BS. The world would back China if N.Korea were controlled.

[Graybeard58]

unless North Korea employed nuclear weapons, which would almost certainly trigger an immediate U.S. response.

Don't bet on it.

[Retired Greyhound]

I think the U.S. should close our base on the DMZ, evacuate all of the Korean Christians, and let the rest of them annihilate each other.

[smokingfrog]

Huge loss of life in the initial attack. The flooding issue is worrisome. The conventional weapons stuff can be taken care of fairly quickly, I think. Question is, will China get involved or not?

[pappyone]

“Seoul, a city of 1 million...”

Wrong answer buckwheat its over 10 million.

[ETL]

From Aug 5, 2001:

Putin, Kim Jong Il Signed Declaration

Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Jong Il, held a historic meeting in the Kremlin on last Saturday to warm traditional ties between their two countries, which have stagnated for over a decade, and signed a key declaration to guide the development of bilateral relations.

At the meeting, Putin expressed his satisfaction with the fact that Kim "has finally made it to Moscow after such a lengthy trip" by train along the Trans-Siberian Railway, the same route Kim’s late father once traveled.

After their meeting, the two leaders signed a milestone declaration which focused on strategic stability and the guidelines of expanding bilateral friendship and cooperation.

The two sides agreed to "promote and enhance friendly relations" in line with the joint declaration of July 19, 2000 and the Russia-DPRK friendship and good neighborly cooperation treaty of February 9, 2000.

Putin and Kim agreed during their talks to promote a Russian- DPRK political dialogue on the Korean issue and international affairs, and discussed many topical international problems, deputy head of the Russian presidential administration Sergei Prikhodko told reporters following the talks.

The two leaders spoke for an independent and peaceful solution to the issue of reunification of the Korean Peninsula, and against "any outside obstacles to this process" as "unacceptable."

The DPRK stated that withdrawal of the American troops from South Korea is an urgent essential issue" and is to promote peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia. Russia expressed appreciation of this position and stressed the need to secure peace and stability in the region by non-military means.

(Xinhua News Agency 08/05/2001)

http://www.china.org.cn/english/2001/Aug/17008.htm

[Blood of Tyrants]

the U.S. would not settle for a peace that left Kim Jong-il in power.

With Obastard in power? Ypu have got to be kidding! Obastard would INSIST that Kim Jong-il remain in power and then he would publicly bow to him!

[Joe 6-pack]

"Seoul, a city of 1 million, could be flattened..."

Not bad for AOL News...only off by a factor of 10; they're getting better.

[Recon Dad]

A lot of the assumptions in these scenario's center around what Zero will do. I contend he will do nothing out of fear.

The South will be warned by the Chicoms and nothing will have changed other than major damage to the South.