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Originally Posted by Looger
north korea is definitely the faraway leader in the world for a rogue nation that could trigger a nuclear nightmare, from an american perspective, but the only way to take them down without a retaliatory strike would be to completely and totally nuke the entire country.
they have enough artillery aimed at seoul to reduce it to rubble in minutes, easily killing millions. so that has to be destroyed right away with nukes.
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All the reasons you stated are true, but you're leaving out one other really important reason why the U.S. will not invade North Korea... and that is China.
China is much more powerful now than it was 50 years ago, and I don't think they would stand for having the U.S. launching a pre-emptive war in their sphere of influence. That last thing the U.S. wants to do is wake China and have them projecting power in the U.S.'s sphere. The U.S. invading Korea at this point would be like China invading Mexico.
Also, the U.S. invading Iraq is like Chuck Norris kicking ass in a kindergarten. I think they are a little more scared to screw with Korea.