situational awareness - of the international kind - of the WW3 kind - of the nuclear war kind
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/twenty-five-million-reasons-the-us-cant-strike-north-korea/2017/04/21/47df9fea-2513-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop&utm_term=.7ac4f52e23ad It will probably take 5 minutes to read this article - it gives an overview of the military situation at the Korean DMZ - (but I am not sure how fortified the NK artillery is) ------------------------------------------ There are some great comments with this article - such as - I read many commentaries that China will not permit the US to wage war on NK because China will not tolerate US troops on its southern border, nor a united Korea under US military protection, and consequently, China will not do what is really necessary to attempt to "squeeze" NK into compliance. This is utter rubbish. Of course the foregoing statements reflect Chinese concerns, but there are ways to satisfactorily address them (and there is historical precedent as well). Following a collapse of NK (either through economic strangulation or war, or a combination thereof), we can be absolutely certain that China would invade NK to prevent chaos from spreading, to seize WMD, to protect against invasion from the South, and to install a "puppet" regime, at least on a temporary basis. After all NK forces are subdued (which may take time), China and the US would begin the long process of deciding how to manage the Korean Peninsula in the future. The most likely outcome would be a new Korea under control of the South, but with a militarized Chinese buffer zone of perhaps as much as 100 miles south of the Chinese border, and US forces remaining in the southern part of the Peninsula, but withdrawing to a buffer zone of largely equivalent size to the extreme south. The DMZ would be erased, and the new Korean government would be comprised of high-ranking representatives from both South and North. NK leadership not directly implicated in genocide or brutality would be granted amnesty and not prosecuted. This is an intelligent way of "absorbing" parts of the NK ruling "elite" into a new, unified government. After many years, once the new government becomes very stable, China and the US would agree to simultaneously withdraw all forces from the Peninsula and abolish the buffer zones. This happened in Austria in 1954 when the US and the Soviet Union were both occupying the country. Why would China agree? Because this solution is better than nuclear war and is a win/win -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
