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HAB911

(8,871 posts)
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 11:06 AM Sep 2017

simulating a new Korean War, and the scenarios are sobering

This is the way a nuclear war begins.

Simulations of a war on the Korean peninsula usually start with a relatively minor incident at the demilitarized zone between South Korea and its hostile northern neighbor, or a provocation that develops into a conventional war and then escalates.

President Trump’s threatening posture toward North Korea — most recently exhibited at the United Nations, where he warned that the U.S. could “totally destroy” the country — has prompted military strategists to examine what would actually happen if a war broke out.

The scenarios are a sobering corrective to the notion that North Korea’s nuclear capacity could be taken out in a single strike, or that the regime would prove as fragile as that of Saddam Hussein in Iraq or Moammar Kadafi in Libya.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-korean-war-20170925-story.html

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simulating a new Korean War, and the scenarios are sobering (Original Post) HAB911 Sep 2017 OP
If Saddam Hussein had had even one nuke, he'd be alive today. Girard442 Sep 2017 #1
Mad Dog Mattis ain't helping the situation. DK504 Sep 2017 #2
china might chop it off HAB911 Sep 2017 #3

Girard442

(6,066 posts)
1. If Saddam Hussein had had even one nuke, he'd be alive today.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 11:10 AM
Sep 2017

Wouldn't even matter if it was never tested. The possibility of it working would have been enough. Kim knows this.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
2. Mad Dog Mattis ain't helping the situation.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 11:25 AM
Sep 2017

He is gun-ho about bombing the crap out of NK.

He won't stop at NK, he'll think his dick is so big he'll think he can do whatever he wants.

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