The is very very scary.

85%-90% of Seoul reduced to rubble would how many? The refugee problem alone would be overwhelming.

In the absence of a strike on the reactor, what other factors could light the match?

seoul will not be turned to rubble. that is rubbish. i want to fight an enemy that fires at civilians and doesn't fire at my troops. the war will be over sooner than expected if they do that.

we are proposing a troop build up in korea and japan. it's in the news for the past several days.

we currently have a northern boundary in nKorea that US troops are not supposed to cross. that line was established with agreement from China. This isn't 1950 anymore and McArthur isn't in command and wanting to take on the chinese. i think they are less worried about it than in the past. China is more concerned with refugees flooding across their borders and the ensuing humanitarian crisis. an all asian peacekeeping force (IMO) would never materialize.

Get your war on!

What country is the US going to go bomb after Korea Wes?

brilliant work sp. i cannot express how gratified i am for this kind of information. well, actually i can, and i will.

hopefully somewhere in the ME.. or maybe pakistan.

In the absence of a strike on Yongbyon I would imagine that possible causes of war are a US discovery that NK has sold nuclear weapons and/or technology to terrorists/Iran/Iraq or some such thing. That, of course, is why we might want to strike the reactor first.

We are not going to be South Korea's ally for much longer.

"A former intelligence officer has revealed that the South Korean leader funneled some 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion) to his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong Il, in return for holding the summit, and lobbied foreign countries to get the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize.

With the cash, North Korea purchased key components for nuclear weapons, 40 Soviet-made MiG jets and a submarine from Kazakhstan, said the former agent known only by his family name, Kim.

The flap came just after government auditors confirmed that the country's giant business conglomerate Hyundai secretly transferred some $200 million, obtained from a South Korean state-run bank, to North Korea just ahead of the summit in June 2000.

See the full article at this link:

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030204-042621-6903r

Dwight:

The population of Seoul is 10.6 million. The population of South Korea is only 48 million.

North Korea probably is the bigger long-term threat.

What I'd ask your friend is what he thinks should be done about it, what he thinks should be done differently--and why he assumes more isn't being done behind the scenes that he doesn't know about.

In the end, all the critics of the administration's NoKo policy that I've seen have uniformly failed to say what they'd be doing differently were they in charge--except to say that they wouldn't have been so rude, or wouldn't have said publicly that they'd never invade. Which are, perhaps, fair criticisms, but is still mostly about what you wouldn't do rather than what you would.

Wesley Dabney ....... over inflated sack of sh*t. I have followed the troll saga and all I can say is, “thank god fore this troll,” even though I generally hate them. But if I never herd the troll’s messages I would still be thinking this clown had some self merit and had something militarily involved, as for his for his “factual” postings, which I later learned he did not. What a Liar this guy is. Playing the heart strings for the military for hits on his counter, what a fool.