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On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 10:27:34 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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Are you seriously trying to make the argument that the S. Koreans would
have
better off if the North had won??

That's really outlandish.


I agree the growth of the south has been phenomenal but one nuke from
the north could tip that scale and that threat definitely exists.

Do you really think that's likely? Seems to me that the NKs would know
they
would be committing suicide.

If we really believed that we would not care who had the bomb.

Untrue. I don't believe NK would be foolish enough to use one. I think we
need to continue to care and to try and 1) prevent it 2) remove the threat
of it.

It is clear if someone attacked the US with a nuke they would have
their country reduced to a smoking radioactive hole in the ground but
it starts becoming less clear what would happen when they attack other
countries. We would probably start WWIII over Israel but I am not sure
if we would do it over South Korea.

Why? And, besides it wouldn't start WWIII. It would be very limited and I
think China would stay out of it.

It is also up in the air what we do if we were attacked by a
stateless terrorist. The precedent is we invade and occupy the last
country the terrorist was in whether he is still there or not.

Which may be true, but that has nothing to do with the situation in Korea.