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just like i predicted, the only reason you wanted to know where i'm from is to make this personal and find more ways to pivot.
on topic though, you're again just elaborating WHY trump's threat was stupid to begin with. and while i already stated that kim would have probably pushed north korea's nuclear development anyway (something you could have noticed if you were able to read properly), the first step to a better solution would have been to NOT make empty threats and rather focus on working with china to find diplomatic solutions - that way you would at least not look like an utterly incompetent idiot and a toothless tiger when your bluff got called...
Who is foolish enough to judge a book by it's cover?
No matter who is president or what they said, NK was still going to do what they have been doing. They just didn't start making nukes since Trump came to office.
Even NK knows, no matter what Trump says, that we could handily kick their ass.
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Im not sure if i read the post here or in an article elsewhere, but iirc it was an SK citizen who wrote it saying they have plenty of military personnel + anti-missile artillery stationed along the border to intercept any attacks. That coupled with the fact NK is too close to SK to use any nukes.
Is SK even in any danger? It sounds like NKs efforts would be moot and soon after the US would annihilate them.
As for SK. They think they could stop everything with their 6 THAAD emplacements. The gamble, ofc is Seoul, SK which is home to 25 million people and 40 miles from NK's border.
NK doesn't even have to launch a nuke at SK they could carry one into Seoul in a hay cart or similar.
The problem seems to be China, and to a somewhat lesser extent Russia, as I have said before.
There are 5 countries with veto power in the UN. Those being China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States.
The entire UN wanted to shut off the oil supplies to NK, which would have ground NK to a halt. But China and Russia, said they would veto that.
There are many diplomatic ways to stop NK but for China standing in the way.
This post was edited by Ghot on Sep 13 2017 01:56am