re: North Korea "A nuclear war may break out any moment".

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Trump’s loose talk may seem fun on the internet, but in the real world there are consequences.

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When said country has tested missiles capable of reaching US Territory and potentially US mainland, expressed significant desire to drop a nuclear or hydrogen bomb on the US, and has repeatedly tested both bombs?

They have one goal. Get the capability to nuke the US at all costs. Trump is actually trying to stop this from happening unlike many Presidents before him.

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nuke capability

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Trump has to decide if it is feasible for America to live with a world that has a very belligerent country like N Korea armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. If not, then what are the options? Any military response has very little time to play out before they become immune from attack.

It is hard to imagine a regime that follows in the steps of Hitler's Germany armed with nuclear weapons that could destroy the world. Personally I would do anything to prevent that scenario, including war.

NK isn't Hitler's Germany. They have basically no Navy or Air Force. Nothing close to the tank superiority that Hitler had, etc.

The NK has a significant amount of artillery pointed at seoul and the potential to launch a nuke towed The general direction of the US. And a bunch of infantry armed with potentially non functional weaponry.

They aren't anywhere near Nazi Germany.

Solved the North Korea problem:

1. China, Russia, South Korea and the US sit down at a table.

2. The parties agree that South Korea will continue as a nation state ultimately free from US military intervention. This is not negotiable. Though no guarantees are required as to how South Korea pursues its own destiny as an independent sovereign nation.

3. China and Russia begin a ~3 year refugee program by opening their borders actively welcoming any North Korean who wishes to emigrate. China and Russia accept North Korea immigrants as refugees and not citizens. Some accommodation might need to be made between China and Russia to equalize the burden.

4. In exchange for temporarily accepting North Korean immigrants, China and Russia will be allowed to expand their borders into the North ~25% of North Korea and divide the new lands as they agree among themselves.

5. The resulting vacuum in North Korea so weakens the regime that either Kim Jong Il and KWP either submit without force or all four parties unanimously agree to simultaneously execute overwhelming force.

South Korea continues. China and Russia expand their national interests. The US gets off the Peninsula.

It's not a perfect scenario to end the North Korean Police Action but all things must eventually come to an end.

NO. IT. WON’T.

The absolute worst case scenario is the N.Korea launches and manages to strike against S.Korea ... once. They don’t have the capability to wage an entire “nuclear war.”

So, they strike once (big maybe there) and then have to return to nonnuclear engagements to defend their borders. Everyone will come down on them like a ten ton hammer. And they just don’t have the ability to invade anyone not next door to them; China will frick them up real good, and S.Korea will have plenty of people (including the US) that will come to their aid.

They are the equivalent of a three year old throwing a temper tantrum. Annoying to be sure, but ultimately inconsequential.