On 4/17/2017 8:32 AM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 21:53:43 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 18:43:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/16/2017 6:26 PM, wrote:

I am sure we are "trying to influence" their elections if they
actually had elections. The propaganda arm of the US government has
been going strong for 100 years. (did you watch the PBS WWI show?)
I am still thinking what I said in the other post. Maybe the best
thing we could do is lose Korea and let Kim try to perpetuate the lie
with 50 million south Koreans in his camp.


That would work. You can't take knowledge away from the South Koreans.
Problem is, they would pay a heavy humanitarian price.

How much damage would a nuclear war on the peninsula cost in
humanitarian terms?

NK could wreak tremendous havoc on the south with purely conventional arms. That's the big fear, and
the reason we have a 'trip wire' US presence over there. Weapons like the one below can reach Seoul
without NK crossing the DMZ.

http://tinyurl.com/ma9y9tv



I suspect that if NK ever attacked SK with conventional weapons we,
under the Trump administration, would quickly put an end to it without
use of nuclear weapons.

A year ago I wouldn't be so sure.