A dozen B-1Bs carrying 50+ CBU-87 per sortie, 3 sorties per day will solve the artillery problem.
They will take out the vast majority in 24hrs.
Besides, the CORE OBJECTIVE here is to protect US existential interests.
Not Seoul. Seoul and Tokyo are high priority, but secondary concerns.
By yielding to SKorean fear of the north for 60 years we have allowed a direct threat to the US mainland to emerge.
Understood. But they don’t have anything other than a one shot chance at a best scenario result. All the shell and rocket artillery will be raining down until it is stopped or preempted to begin with. If it is not preempted, the losses will be massive but like you said, they lulled themselves into the idea a peaceful reunification could be attained propagated by the communist left. It will get to a never again scenario once the dust settles no matter which artillery termination scenario results.