Posted on 10/11/2006 7:03:38 PM PDT by Flavius
PLANS previously drafted by the Pentagon predict 52,000 US military casualties and one million civilian dead in the first 90 days of conflict if America attacked Pyongyang. The US leadership is looking at international economic and diplomatic sanctions against North Korea as its primary response to Monday's nuclear test.
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Within 5 hours the NOrth Koreans would send 1 million men across the demilitarized zone and overwhelm our forces as well as kill a million in Seoul.
A quagmire I tell you.
"Where have I heard these dire forecasts before?"
Don't worry, the RATS will be on TV with a body bag count tomorrow.
And what is SK? Chopped liver?
Nuke NK and our troops and SK people will get hit with the aftermath and die too. Today's nukes are 50 times more powerful than the firecrackers that exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
How ridiculous. Just nuke the bastards and be done with it.
There is no reason to accept any American causulties in a war with the North Koreans.
EXACTLY!!!!
What on earth is President Bush waiting for??? For Iran and N.Korea to get nukes and ICBMs?
Some people worry about foreign civilian casualties, well I worry about AMERICAN ones.
My thought, too. I think the MSM pulls this out of their files each year.
Oh, duh. I forgot.
(put red face here)
:-| thank you
There would be millions killed in Seoul.
They have tens of thousands of in-ground mortars (big ones) pointed directly at Seoul and I read in a report that they would be able to lob over 12,000 500 pound artillary shells into the city in less than 12 hours.
The only way to prevent such an event would be multiple tactical nukes North of the DMZ.
We will not go nuclear first. We will not go nuclear unless Kim is able to detonate on our soil, even if he tries to do so. We will detonate only if we are hit with WMD.
There is a problem, because Seoul with its large civilian population is so close to the DMZ. It would be a nasty war, IMHO.
Even so, war may be a better choice than the alternatives.
I don't think sanctions are realistic. In the first place, they would be meaningless without China's cooperation, which is doubtful. In the second place, the ordinary people of North Korea are already starving. What good would it do to starve even more of them? Kim Jong Il couldn't care less. In fact, he'd probably enjoy it. It would make him feel important.
I think the "previously" must mean 1954.
First, NK has a massive number of people in its military, and a lot of military hardware (practically its entire GNP has been used to build up its military instead of feed its people).
Second, keep in mind that NK has an unknown number of "nuclear devices" now, and missiles. One nuke lobbed over (or driven using a nondescript truck into) the highest concentration of US troops in the region would produce a very large number of casualties.
I'm just grateful that my long term memory still works!
Sir, it's not that simple. SK is right over the border. Any nuclear explosion, the aftereffects will hit SK and Japan. Possibly the major cities in China near NK as well.
These are the same sort of "experts" who were were calculating how many would die in the trenches, and how long the Maginot line would hold should the Germans attack.
BTTT
I bet this is a really true assessment from the insides of the Pentagon. Gasp!!
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