(12-03-2017, 10:20 PM)FBT Wrote: NK could launch their entire arsenal of nukes, maybe even hitting a few population centers.  It would result in their complete destruction.   Mutually assured destruction prevented nuclear war from breaking out between the US and USSR during the Cold War.  The same will hold true in this instance.  I don’t see this lunatic actually targeting anything other than water with his missiles.  He has to recognize the risk, and the no win situation he’s in.

Despite the rhetoric, diplomacy will end this.  If not, a surgical strike will. When the dust settles, NKs nuclear aspirations aren’t nearly as terrifying as the notion they might sell that material to a state sponsor of terror like Iran.