UN's "call for action" against North Korea

[Dobby]

I think it would suffer from a short but intense artillery barrage before it could be stopped, but being as how nearly half of south Korea's entire population live in the greater Seoul area (25 million), I doubt it's something the south would want to risk.

[The Dharma Bum]

ignore them and let nature take its course

[Spider]

I'll support supporting action against the DPRK.

Someone else can do it and be shat on for their trouble.

We'll defend the ROK against counterattack. We have treaty obligations to meet. As much as they can reasonably be defended from falling artillery shells at any rate. We can probably shoot down DPRK missiles with little trouble, if they get off the ground. But S Korea is boned no matter what in this scenario, so I highly doubt anything will happen. Even if its a stunning victory and the North gets totally routed...thats still millions of brainwashed, starving, quasi zombies to deal with, and I can't think of how that burden would be anything but ruinous for the ROK.

No benefit to anyone at all in any of this except of course the people of the north.

[Dobby]

[Spider]

[Dobby]

Perhaps, but it's still something that they definitely want. Probably more so from a cultural standpoint than an economic one.

[Indy]

If ever there was a moral case for the world intervening, this is it, unless we want to sit by and watch another Holocaust or Rwanda and do nothing.

That is coming from somebody well aware that we've buried ourselves in costs and failure in the two wars we waged over the past decade or so. I am so tired of reading about this bozo and his dad before him and how they're a blight on the face of the planet--and that's saying something, considering some of the countries out there today.

There's two main reasons why our "freedom loving" nation isn't doing anything:

1) They don't have oil; there's not a clear-cut case for disaster capitalism either like you had with Iraq and Halliburton or even Afghanistan
2) China

Well ok three in that there's that little nuke thingy too.

North Korea gets away with the shit that they do because they always have My Bodyguard, China, protecting them. Until that changes, I can't see this changing.

As for the military thing and the people of Seoul, I have absolutely zero doubt that with our military planning and abilities we could set up an overwhelming pre-emptive strike that would pretty much render them Iraq in Desert Storm, and then have our way with them.

I'm also thinking that because they're not Muslims we can't use them as another arrow in the War on Terror quiver, used now for years by our leaders to trot out the Fear Bear whenever they want to scare the American people into going along with something stupid. So another reason to think nothing will change.

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[Dobby]

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