The latest North Korean drama...

[Kadagar_AV]

Strange we havent got a thread on it yet. Sharpen up guys!!

From my perspective just sabre rattling, but the latest news say an attack is imminent...

I have a hard time believing it will come to much. NK sure must understand that they will be the fly to the fly swatter if it ever came to war. YES USA struggles in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the type of conventional army and doctrines NK have is EXACTLY what the US armed forces is trained and equipped to handle extremely proficiently.

[Major Robert Dump]

I swear to effing god if I resign to inactive and then move to the Marianas, and that crazy effer attacks Guam or the CNMI, well won't that be a fitting end for me, especially if I get recalled.

[Major Robert Dump]

I think China and Russia may disagree with your strategy.

They have made it fairly clear that they take NKs side even when NK is in the wrong.

On one hand, China holds a lot of US debt and can hold that over the Presidents head.

On the other hand, you occasionally hear about a person being murdered, and it turns out they were killed by someone who owed them money... catch my drift? One of the easiest ways for the US to eliminate its deficit is to eliminate the loan. BOOYAH

Just not in Guam pls KTHNX

[Tellos Athenaios]

From a foreign policy perspective the safe thing to do is to kick the can down the road some more: do what we're already doing and let someone else clean up the mess. Kinda like Vietnam.

[Papewaio]

China is the designated driver on this, so let them look after their power drunk friend.

Of course if China does flex it's military might to remove Kim 3.0 then they will probably either annex the country or bankrupt South Korea by returning to sender.

[Montmorency]

or bankrupt South Korea by returning to sender.

On the other hand, South Korea's power might wax at the expense of Chinese exports, as northern Korea becomes an industrial powerhouse of labor most cheap, fueled by the direct investment of a rich nation. Of course, that wouldn't last forever, but the windfall might well pay off the costs of rapid integration and development - and again, certainly to China's disadvantage.

So

From a foreign policy perspective the safe thing to do is to kick the can down the road some more

[Major Robert Dump]

I seem to recall a few token strike have already been ignored. I can think of some people on an island who got artilleried and some sailors on an SK ship that went down with the vessel who might disagree, were they alive. Any other two countries would have already gone to war over this