Would you agree on a pre-emptive strike against North Korea?

[AbbathTheGrim]

VGPolyglot said:

AbbathTheGrim said:

The thing though is that nobody knows exactly what NK's Kim wants, but some of the previous demands from NK are that the US leaves the region and that NK wants an unified Korea.

If de-escalating the situation is entering negotiations that lead the US to leave there, nothing is stopping NK from threatening an invasion of the South by menace of nuclear warfare.

I am all up for negotations that will make this Kim guy happy and stop with the threats, but if what he wants is for the US to disappear from the region and gain power there and maybe even allow China to have more power there, that would be bad for our allies and I doubt the US will agree to any of it.

So I suppose the only answer would be to not do anything, get used to threats and hope for the best.

What North Korean officials want is for the regime to survive. They want to make threats, then have negotiations that will try to ensure that. They don't want a war that will surely end them.

But that would require us to believe that Kim knows how much he can push the US and Co. without leading to war and that in his missle tests and threats his group of engineers don't mess up and people get killed.

In order to accept what you say as true we need to invest trust in Kim who by actions and judgement doesn't seem to deserve any.

Every action and inaction comes as a gamble, and as any gamble, there is risk of losing. The question is, how much are we willing to lose and what are we willing to lose?

Qwark said:

AbbathTheGrim said:

I doubt is gonna be any way as cool as in Mad Max and Fallout games so I see the temptation of the idea but then realize the delusion. :P

The Nuclear winter should solve our global warming problem though ;)

I am not sure that would work. :P

p0isonparadise said:

AbbathTheGrim said:

I doubt is gonna be any way as cool as in Mad Max and Fallout games so I see the temptation of the idea but then realize the delusion. :P

WW3 or a nuclear war is going to happen eventually, might as well get it over and done with. 

Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today! :D