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[Lurks Often]

103. Where did you get murdering 100 million people from?

And if you are President would you really allow NK to launch a EMP strike with the worst case scenario for the U.S. being the one in your previous post?

I don't believe we would ever launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike.

Only under very specific conditions should a pre-emptive conventional strike take place, with the below scenario an example.

Preparations for a large scale nuclear attack by NK would be picked up by satellite, which would be a legitimate reason for a pre-emptive strike by the US, which would almost certainly consist of a large number of non-nuclear cruise missiles (about 150) from whichever SSGN is near North Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio-class_submarine#SSBN/SSGN_conversions
as well as B-2 strikes with precision guided weapons (up to 80 per plane) to take out launch sites, mobile launchers, command and control sites and air defense sites.

More plainly a pre-emptive conventional strike is warranted where there are no diplomatic alternatives and a failure to act would cause more deaths then the strike would cause.