Seoul can’t be protected, but by all indications (e.g. Lyndsey Graham’s statements after discussing it with Trump) Trump knows he was elected to advance US interests, not South Korean.
I expect Trump to attack with heavy bombers from Guam and US ships in international waters. We don’t need South Korea’s permission to protect our homeland from NK nukes.
No aspersions on Col. Peters, unless I have my information wrong, NK has 1970’s missiles that can only be launched without precision as to target. Moreover, they can’t carry a nuke yet. So how could they hit Guam? Let’s just cooperate with South Korea’s plan to deal with NK. If I am wrong on this, please correct.
There exists weapons in our arsenal that is very rarely spoken about, if ever. Total defense of Seoul, not going to happen but unconstrained artillery will not happen as predicted either. All that is required is for the CIC to have the will to use them but in doing so, the world will awaken to a new terrible reality as they did after the first reports from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So you’re ok with Seoul being obliterated by artillery, and the hundreds of thousands of dead South Koreans that will be the inevitable result?
Any decent strike plan will include the destruction of NK artillery on the DMZ. The problem with that is we don’t know where every single gun position is. There are no easy answers here. Many of the good guys will die to include civilians no matter what we do.