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Originally Posted by Shuffle
I think the writing is on the wall at this point, and if you are living in South Korea, Japan, or U.S. islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii, you should start making contingency plans. North Korea is not going to abandon their nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and the U.S. is going to attack them at some point. Could be this year, could be next year, could be in 5 years, who knows, but the U.S. seems to have made up its mind.
Meh, this is not unlike the posturing that the US did when India and Pakistan were developing their nuclear assets. Lots of tough talk but in the end once the nations have the weapons they're pretty much untouchable so nothing really happens.
If Kim really has working weapons then the whole discussion about going to war with them is moot unless the US wants to launch a nuclear first strike, and that would be pointless because then South Korea and Japan are threatened with a retaliatory strike even if the US mainland isn't. It's a bluff.