NK is China's mad dog they keep chained up. They don't completely control it but they feed it and it protects the back yard. There is no good military solution. Unless...

Unless there's a weapon we have not yet revealed. You gotta think the DoD has been doing something with those 40 years of black budgets totaling trillions of $. Or maybe the Pentagon spent it on hookers and blow and the Chinese are the ones with the space weapons and sharks with lasers.

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How about kinetic bombardment sometimes known as "Rods from God"? Essentially you drop a titanium telephone pole from space with precise targeting. The destruction is massive but local and there's no radioactive fallout. If you had enough of them to take out all the NK nuke launch sites, that would prevent them from nuking anyone but there would still be the problem of 700,000 NK troops and all that conventional artillery pointed south.

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