How to strike NK w/o annihilating 20 million Seoul occupants when NK retaliates? This has always been the sticking point in any action in Korea and why Shitgibbon's poo flinging makes the south very nervous. We have lots of options in terms of hardware but the real issue is at what cost to SK?

Sad, but true.

left couple million homeless 'refugees'.

I don't quite understand your post. TIA.

Is anything left of Mosul?

The brutal fight to rid Mosul of so-called Islamic State has left the northern Iraqi city in ruins, thousands dead and survivors scattered far and wide. Just how much devastation was caused by the battle between Iraq’s forces - backed by US-led air strikes - and the militant group, and what will happen now? While the battle for Mosul is over after nine months of fighting, its people are facing a humanitarian crisis on a catastrophic scale.

Death toll estimates vary widely, from thousands to tens of thousands, and more than one million - equivalent to the population of Dublin - have fled their homes since the offensive started in October last year.

Whole neighbourhoods have been flattened, bodies remain under rubble and streets are littered with unexploded weapons, landmines and booby-traps.
2016

JULY 2017


FROM BBC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/10/south-koreans-ask-crisis-what-crisis/?utm_term=.9acf11b5503b


SEOUL — As Americans from Guam to New York wonder if the United States is about to become embroiled in a nuclear war, millions of South Koreans living within rocket range of North Korea went about their normal days Thursday.

The trains ran and the planes flew, the president talked about health-care reform and the news agencies sent out alerts about the corruption case against Samsung’s heir apparent. The main stock exchange is up more than 300 points since the beginning of the year.

Store workers and bus drivers laughed when asked if they were ready for war.

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/KOSPI:IND

I've heard and read that the missile sites are not hardened and therefore could be taken out in any number of ways (not so for the nuclear sites tho). However, there's really no way to take out a few thousand artillery pieces, correct? I know many of them are fixed and vulnerable, but there are THOUSANDS.

That's the problem with any military action, no matter how it's delivered.

than his dumbass wall... but egging on North Korea and
provoking an attack on Seoul would be the world's greatest
act of stupidity. Egads.

"Of all the military options … [President Trump] could consider, this would be one of the two or three that would at least have the possibility of not escalating the situation," said retired Adm. James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and an NBC News analyst."

So long Seoul.

neighborhood had a siren alarm that went off every couple of months for testing. When the alarm went off the children were instructed to duck and cover.

told don't look at the windows, while crouched underneath our wooden desks, like that's going to help, and remembering living on that base that housed those KC-135 and B-52's going into defon 4 during the Cuban missile crises, knowing that we would be one of the first to be fried like an egg, and now we have a absolute complete failed idiot and his team running around, with over 50% of the right wingers coming and saying that the 2020 election should be delayed to keep this idiot in charge
.




Here let me remind all of the bots and trolls and other right wingers running around what I am talking about and how we were told of this issue on that base school 2017 style:


http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

"solution". Humpty Dumpty, where those "great/fantastic/terrfic negotiating skills" you touted during the election.

How does anyone hold the belief that we could bomb North Korea and there be a chance that it would not escalate things?

This kind of thinking is beyond me

Didn't N Korea say yesterday it was finalising plans to attack Guam?

Just Trump saying "My dick is bigger than your dick"?

the launcher AND cut off the sea trade route between Russia and NK.

Who knew?