Unfortunately, there is little other option. Unless there is some way to immediately neutralize the 10,000 artillery pieces aimed at Seoul, there is little that can be done to N.K. short of a nuclear strike. What Tillerson has done was basically inevitable (said the same last year, way before Tillerson was in the picture), and I am sure he did not do that with President Trump’s cognizance.
“Unfortunately, there is little other option. Unless there is some way to immediately neutralize the 10,000 artillery pieces aimed at Seoul, there is little that can be done to N.K. short of a nuclear strike.”
I disagree. They can be “imploded” as long a the U.S. and South Korea keep getting backing for international sanctions, do nothing to weaken that, and give N.K. no rewards just for “talking”. If both parties agree to constant increasing sanctions, no gifts or compromises, until N.K. not merely promises to, but actually climbs down off it’s nuclear ambitions. time is on the side of an implosion. China will not rescue it, and as long as the allies to not act first China will not rescue it.
Yes, the N.K. artillery will be bad, but as long as it is a N.K. “first strike” they will be on their own and lose, completely when the dust settles. That leaves only an implosion, which I think everyone but the Kims in North Korea will accept when it hits.