[hchutch]

That's where the NKs have their nuclear weapons program last I checked. I'd feel a lot better if we had some battleships to blast that place to hell - those 16" guns do a nice job, and we wouldn't have to risk so many pilots.

[Poohbah]

those 16" guns do a nice job

Assuming they actually hit the target (not guaranteed)...

and we wouldn't have to risk so many pilots.

First, the last time I checked, death in combat was an occupational hazard of accepting the King's Shilling.

Second, why are 40-50 pilots that much more valuable than 1,500 sailors you'd have to drive right up onto the North Korean coastline?

[HiJinx]

US, S. Korean National Security Councils Meeting Separately and Urgently Today (Breaking)
Posted on 12/27/2002 9:58 AM MST by AmericanInTokyo

Special meeting of the United States National Security Council, called by C. Rice, in order to discuss rapidly escalating North Korean situation (reported by CNN recently and carried by Japanese Yomiuri news, in Japanese).

Followed (or preceded) shortly by extraordinary emergency session of South Korean National Security Council in Seoul to discuss, and coordinate on the same topic, North Korea expelling UN monitors and inserting additional spent plutonium fuel rods at North Korean nuke plant.

Breaking.

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The world is rapidly becoming an interesting place...

[johnny7]

The Ohio would plaster them good. Nothing puts the fear of God in you like one of those shells.

In any case, GW has to take this as problem #1. NK makes Iraq look like the French.

Strike them now... because they got the juice to hit us.