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Originally Posted by theonlywhiteout
Let me ask you this, crunch. If North Korea and South Korea had a war and the North was winning, but the South refused to surrender, what would your reaction be to NK nuking Seoul to get them to surrender? Would you think "oh look at those noble North Koreans thinking about their South Korean brothers and saving them from suicide and a messy invasion"
No, not really. You'd like consider them war criminals. And before you lose your mind and get mad at me Robert McNamara and Curtis LeMay (2 of the highest ranking officers involved in the bombing of Japan during ww2) considered themselves to be acting like war criminals with the fire bombings of Japan, nevermind the Atomic bombs.
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Its not something that I can equate because I have to look at the whole situation. How does said war start? Does North Korea sneak attack South Korea? Whats their conduct in dealing with Civilian Centers and prisoners.
If South Korea invaded first with a sneak attack, burned down cities in North Korea, rounded up and executed and raped thousands of Civilians, then the North Korea using a nuke to end a murderous Military threat would be something that could be livable, especially if they could reduce casualties by using a nuclear threat.
If however North Korea started the war, executed South Korean's enmasse, burned infrastructure to the ground, then used nukes then the whole conduct of the war including the nuking would be criminal in my mind.