(08-09-2017, 09:04 AM)Jagwired Wrote: Some of you are seriously underestimating the time required for the US to have assets on site and the destructive capability of those assets. Little man runs his mouth and puts up missiles only because he has been allowed to so far. If the US decides that we are tired of this or do start to become convinced that the crazy little man might actually do something real and dangerous to us or any American interests the campaign to end NK as any type of military threat to anyone would take no more then 72 hours or so with the use of conventional weapons only.

NK already has enough soldiers and armament on the border to push deep into SK within the first week. Because they are such a poor country their supplies would quickly diminish before being pushed back. But there are two important factors you've overlooked: 1) Seoul is within artillery range of the DMZ. Any military action will result in the deaths of millions within the first 3 days. Seoul is NK's ace in the hole. 2) Why did we, in essence, lose the Korean War? Because the Chinese got involved - and will do so again if a shooting war erupts. China does NOT want to share a border with a politically non-aligned country. Especially one allied with the U.S. China drags their feet now because they want NK as a buffer zone.

It's not as simple as wiping out a despot and his ragtag army. There are millions upon millions of lives at stake along with global destabilization.

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