General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEscalating tension has experts simulating a new Korean War, and the scenarios are sobering
Barbara Demick
September 25, 2017 3:00 a.m.
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 Trumps 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 Koreas 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.
Too many Americans have the view that it would be like the invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan, or like combat operations in Libya or Syria, but it wouldnt remotely resemble that, said Rob Givens, a retired Air Force brigadier general who spent four years stationed on the Korean peninsula. And that is before the North Koreans turn to nuclear weapons. There is only one way that this war ends, Givens said. With North Koreas defeat but at what cost?
James Stavridis, a retired Navy admiral and dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, said the horrific war many have long feared with North Korea is a distinct possibility. He puts the chances of conventional conflict with North Korea at 50-50 and the chances of nuclear war at 10%.
more
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-korean-war-20170925-story.html
lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)have been firmly brainwashed into believing that the US invasion forces will kill their babies using bayonets.
There is no way for us to fight this and have it end quickly... unless we commit horrific war crimes and kill all of the North Koreans,
spanone
(135,861 posts)the reporter interviewed children who said that kim jung un loves them more than their parents....
it was chilling.