[ClearCase_guy]

I feel like we are not going to do anything because we don’t want Seoul to be damaged. And therefore we will allow the situation to drift until North Korea has ICBMs with nuclear warheads that can reach NYC.

I’m crazy. I’d give China a deadline (6 months? 1 year?) and if North Korea doesn’t clearly change in the way we want, then we will collapse the country. China doesn’t want that.

Yup. Seoul might be devastated. But Seoul is not NYC. Gotta choose one of those cities. It’s not hard.

[fatez]

I say bring India, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea in for a pow-wow. Let them know they have a very common adversary and we really think they should do something about it including going full nuke. We should let the Chinese know this in advance. China does not want a nuked up Japan, let them chew on that as they play dumb on North Korea...

[RoosterRedux]

The thing is, we know the location of each of the embedded artillery pieces aimed toward Seoul. They are antiquated and inaccurate, but embedded in rock mountain faces in a shoot and scoot arrangement in which they can be rolled out, fired, and then rolled back behind steel doors in 60 seconds.

I imagine Mattis is developing a plan which prevents any or, at least, much damage to Seoul.