re: Former WH Aid Reveals Scale of North Korea's Plans to Invade South Korea

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Let them do it. The U.S. should stay out of it.

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My Uncle said 4 days to a week...and that was with the US just telling the South to go and maybe helping with signals interception. North Korea has old diesel tanks, virtually no night fighting ability and their supply lines go over mountain passes. One Apache could halt an entire column, and they don't even have enough fuel to train their pilots.

Sure there would be holdouts, but the military would disappear.

There would be a coup and some cousin of Il would take him out.

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Victor Cha joined CSIS in May 2009 as a senior adviser and the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair. He is also director of Asian studies and holds the D.S. Song-KF Chair in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From 2004 to 2007, he served as director for Asian affairs at the White House on the National Security Council (NSC), where he was responsible primarily for Japan, the Korean peninsula, Australia/New Zealand, and Pacific Island nation affairs. Dr. Cha was also the deputy head of delegation for the United States at the Six-Party Talks in Beijing and received two Outstanding Service Commendations during his tenure at the NSC. He is the award-winning author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (Stanford University Press, 1999), winner of the 2000 Ohira Book Prize; Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies, with Dave Kang (Columbia University Press, 2004); Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (Columbia University Press, 2009); and The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (Ecco, 2012), selected by Foreign Affairs magazine as a 2012 “Best Book on Asia and the Pacific.” His next book is Powerplay: Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). He has written articles on international relations and East Asia in journals including Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, Survival, International Studies Quarterly, and Asian Survey.

Dr. Cha is a former John M. Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University, a two-time Fulbright Scholar, and a Hoover National Fellow, CISAC Fellow, and William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford University. He holds Georgetown University’s Dean’s Teaching Award for 2010 and the Distinguished Research Award for 2011. He serves as an independent consultant and has testified before Congress on Asian security issues. He has been a guest analyst for various media including CNN, ABC Nightline, NBC Today Show, CBS Morning Show, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and National Public Radio. He has a cameo role (as himself) in the upcoming action film “Red Dawn” (Contrafilm, MGM, Vincent Newman Entertainment) scheduled for release in November 2012. Dr. Cha holds a B.A., an M.I.A., and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, as well as an M.A. from Oxford University.

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Basically that means if anyone attacks South Korea, we will view that as an attack on us as well.


I bet everyone would invade North Korea, including the Chinese. Everyone is sick of their shite since we're in the most peaceful era in human history and they're trying to frick all that u

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Well, I agree with the WH aide. It shouldn't take much time at all. Lil Kim isn't going to put his life on the line like that though. He knows if he did such a stupid thing, the ROK would hunt his fat arse down and put two into his fat skull.

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My Uncle said 4 days to a week...and that was with the US just telling the South to go and maybe helping with signals interception.

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Have you read the book?

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No fricking way it takes 4-6 months to stop NK. All you need to do is send everything you've got to Pyongyang. Once a few key targets are hit, then you've cut the head off the snake

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