Sure we would- we would be defeated by having withdrawn from the field, any threats we made would be deemed unbelievable and we would still have to deal with a North Korean nuke threat.
We would be far worse off.
Our best bet is annihilation of North Korea. Trump gives the order, somewhere a Trident sub opens its missile tubes and 30-45 minutes later there's no longer a North Korea.
If Seoul or even Japan get hit with residual strikes, well, they've had decades to prepare and not done as much as they should have to hold up their end of the alliance. Their weakness has put us in a situation where we have to choose between our security and theirs. So it sucks to be them.
I was just listening to FoxNews on XM and just caught the end of some "analyst" wringing her hands about how there cannot be a military option because of all of the death and destruction it would cause on the Korean Peninsula. It may have been Marie Harff, which would be typical, but I'm not sure who it was.
Well sweetie, there will be a heck of a lot of death and destruction in one or more American cities if we don't stop this. These idiots with their heads in the sand truly believe we can just close our eyes and wish evil away. We absolutely positively would have lost WWII if these "can'tdonuffin"s had been in charge.
We have a military for a reason, and I can't imagine a more immediate threat deserving of being prevented via the full fury of that military than this one. I challenge any Libertarian isolationist to explain not what shouldn't be done, but instead precisely how they propose that we stop this threat.