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2009-06-14 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2009-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Add in a couple of "small" yield nuclear weapons and maybe even a dirty bomb or two...

Ref: the post here on the burg a couple weeks ago of the effects of even a 4 KT "primitve nuke" over the population center of Seoul.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-06-14 01:57|| 2009-06-14 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 No worry. US funds will be made available.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-06-14 03:58|| 2009-06-14 03:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm sure plenty of people in NK benefit from the current sabre rattling, but who would benefit from an actual attack on SK, Japan, China, et al? To attack one of them is to ask for a crushing defeat by all their enemies. That pretty well kills any career ambitions for the dictator hopefuls. Theoretically they can do a lot of damage to SK but the price to the dictator wannabies would be total defeat.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-06-14 06:24|| 2009-06-14 06:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Ever heard of "Prisoner's Dilemma", RoO?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-06-14 08:14|| 2009-06-14 08:14|| Front Page Top

#5 South Korea should begin the evacuation of civilians within 20 miles of the DMZ. (If Pakistan can fight through Swat, then SK can send everyone on a vacation to the countryside for a couple weeks.) Once they are largely out of range, demand the NK army immediately deliver Kimmy and crew dead or alive. Problem solved.

Posted by rammer">rammer 2009-06-14 10:37|| 2009-06-14 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 OldSpook, I saw your comment before and you are indeed correct: a 4 kT air-burst over Seoul would kill tens of thousands. It would induce hysteria in millions (understandably so) and thus make the defense of Seoul next to impossible.

But even if the Norks didn't use a nuke, 20,000 long-range, heavy artillery shells a minute for a day or two would accomplish the same thing. So I think Mr. Koehl is being a bit dismissive of what would happen to South Korea if indeed the Norks decided to have a big shoot-off.

Posted by Steve White 2009-06-14 11:32|| 2009-06-14 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Not 20,000. The Norks probably have 1000 long range arty and rocket systems that can reach Seoul. Each 170mm shell can collapse a large part of a high rise apartment. The minute NK opens up, counter battery will be headed their way. The nukes are for bluster. One use and it's instant death for the Norks.

Should have let them all starve in 1994, but that cancer Carter just won't die.

Posted by ed 2009-06-14 12:27|| 2009-06-14 12:27|| Front Page Top

#8 VARIOUS > NORTH KOREA THREATENS NUCLEAR WAR. Repor will escalate enrichment of URANIUM, + "WEAPONIZE" ITS PLUTONIUM NUCMAT STOCKPILES???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-06-14 18:51|| 2009-06-14 18:51|| Front Page Top

#9 If fighting starts afresh, many on both sides of ricebowl will be fried.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-06-14 19:52|| 2009-06-14 19:52|| Front Page Top

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