The Next Korean War Using the military is an option. Here's how it can be done.

http://www.opinionjournal.com ^ | Monday, August 4, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT | JAMES WOOLSEY AND THOMAS G. MCINERNEY

[Bahbah]

Oh dear, and I was headed for bed. Oh well, thanks COUNT.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

ping

[MelonFarmerJ]

Re:
http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/08/NorthKoreablinks.shtml

This is an excellent blog post, and if the writer's conclusions are correct, bodes well for the US, if Bush can ignore the pack of yapping critics at his heels and stay the course. The key to solving the North Korean problem was, is and always will be the Chinese. The ChiComs intend to establish their own hegemony in Asia, and they won't allow the NKs to screw things up at this early stage. At this point in time we can use this certainty to our advantage, and buy need time on the chance that Chinas's merchantile class will eventually prevail over its expansionist military rulers. The wild card is the Japanese, who absolutely will not tolerate a nuclear NK, period. And China cannot tolerate a nuclear Japan, the old animosities still run hard and deep..... in this case, Churchill was right, better jaw jaw than war war.

[Txsleuth]

I had to do a double take...to check the date on the article...

Thanks for pinging me.

[denydenydeny]

As the article points out, any shelling of Seoul would be of very limited duration.

Thanks you for the dose of common sense among this thread's rampant fear and trembling of the unstoppable North Korean war machine.

8000 sorties a day can solve a lot of problems. I believe in our air power.

[kkmo9]

WOW... very informative and skeery, Count... thanks!

[Pepper777]

Thanks for the ping!! I almost read the entire first page before I realized the thread was from 2003. Amazing how the opinion piece read like it could have been recently pinned.

I'm listening to an end times show on talk radio right now. It should be quite interesting considering all the rumors of wars and more wars. Strange times, indeed.

Thanks again for the ping!

[edsheppa]

Somebody's smoking dope if they think the South will go along with this idea. No, the key is China and the keys to China are Taiwan and trade. On the former, we can trade action against NK for the status quo on Taiwan. On the latter, we can afford a trade disruption far better than China.