The most important question to be asked in the Korean theatre is basically to the Japanese and the South Koreans, and that is —–> Are they ready to die to keep America safe.
A second Korean war would be as bloody as the first, if not more. But unlike the first, the second Korean war is likely to bring to the table a real possibility of the bully getting punched in face (read continental US). This is what has unsettled the muricans and the hawks inside murica would love to fight to the last Korean and Japanese to keep continental America safe, but is that what the Japanese and Koreans want? I guess not.
The First Korean war is known as the Forgotten War in the US, the second Korean war, if it happens, wont be.
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US has been very tolerant of North Korea’s antics as long as they weren’t a threat to the US mainland. US tolerated North Korea sinking a SK warship, tolerated the shelling of SK island, tolerated IRBM launches, tolerated NK building nuke weapons, and tolerated NK testing nuke weapons, all because they wren’t a threat to the US AND because Seoul was 30 miles from thousands of NK artillery pieces.
That all changed (after knowing they weaponized a nuke warhead and didn’t tell us) when they tested a ballistic missile a few weeks ago that could very likely reach the US mainland. As long as NK could not reach us with a nuke tipped missile, US was restraint, but now the game has changed and NK crossed a line that President Trump said the US would not tolerate. This is not about South Korea anymore but the security of the US, and if Seoul has to be sacrificed to take out NK’s capability to hit the US with a nuke tipped missile, then so be it and too bad for Seoul for not moving its capital after the Korean war. I predict Trump will take action in early 2018 only because of the whispers I’m hearing at work (I’m a civilian tech for US Navy). I will not blame Trump for the mess that we’re about to get in, i blame the previous administrations for kicking the can.
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