How close is Donald Trump from starting war with North Korea?

[MisterrSingh]

[MisterrSingh]

The rhetoric for potential nuclear war between US and NK is being amped up in the media today. I can't see it happening aside from a few strategic missile strikes against NK.

[genie]

10 hours ago, MisterrSingh said:

The rhetoric for potential nuclear war between US and NK is being amped up in the media today. I can't see it happening aside from a few strategic missile strikes against NK.

Trump and Kim are two madmen that do not like to loose face in front of the public but as long as no one takes a per-emptive strike things will be as they are.

I'd be more concerned about them putting nuke devices on their untested or unsuccessful long range ICBM's. Imagine they were to launch one and it goes off course and lands on a friendly or neutral nation killing hundreds of thousands of people, it would drag that other country into war in the already dangerous region. Also nuke devices on missiles havent been used in warfare before. Nukes have only been dropped from planes by america on civilian targets back in ww2 on japan. So its an untested technology in real warfare scenario with potentially dire consequences if the missiles fail to reach their intended target.

[Ranjeet01]

Trump's real target is for China to keep North Korea under manners.

[genie]

38 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

Trump's real target is for China to keep North Korea under manners.

Long term yes and Iran but short term America has no good way of dealing with N.Korea as its nuclear armed and has the potential to do serious harm to US regional allies and its military bases/assets.

I think if trump goes in hard against N.Korea it will definitely get a bloody nose if not worse and will lose more than it experienced in vietnam, Korea 1950s it could possibly be the end of american dreams of total military dominance of the world.

[Ranjeet01]

9 minutes ago, genie said:

Long term yes and Iran but short term America has no good way of dealing with N.Korea as its nuclear armed and has the potential to do serious harm to US regional allies and its military bases/assets.

I think if trump goes in hard against N.Korea it will definitely get a bloody nose if not worse and will lose more than it experienced in vietnam, Korea 1950s it could possibly be the end of american dreams of total military dominance of the world.

N Korea would be foolish to attack it's neighbours.

Without China, N Korea would not have nuclear weapons.

Who are the two main countries N Korea has enmity has? South Korea and Japan.

The last thing China would want is for Japan to have nuclear weapons. A militarily resurgent Japan would be a game changer.

The last thing both Japan or China would want is a united Korea. The Koreans hate the Japanese and there is a part of China that was traditionally part of Korea. If Korea was to unite it would cause some big headaches around the region.

The short term goal is to change the perception of China and N Korea to show that the U.S. is not a soft touch. It means that China and the US will have future discussions that would be more favourable for Trump and he will have the levers to pressure China to keep N Korea under control.

[genie]

I now suspect N.Korea is far stronger militarily than West/USA gives it credit. All those "failed" missile tests could be a rouse to make the enemy think the N.Koreans aren't capable to strike them to lull them in a false sense of security. Basically to avoid sanctions and military action sooner when they weren't ready and nor have ICBM capability.

So if hostilities did break out there would be a very nasty shocking surprise for the yanks should they dare to attack Kim's regime.

We need to remember N.Koreans have many subs that have gone "missing". Have put satellites in space (showing long range missile capability). And have 1 million man strong army ideologically programmed to be ready willing and able to destroy the opposition to their country.