What a War with North Korea would look like

[tomhagen]

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Up to 25 million deaths.

[Hoyt]

2. It would be ugly, because it would not just be limited to NK. The world would also plunge into

a severe economic depression.

Honestly, I think we need to quit trying to keep countries from acquiring nukes with our bombs. Heck, we are the only country to have ever used the things on innocent people (please spare me the junk about having Japan surrounded and starving just wasn't enough, we had to kill 200,000 people).

[TomVilmer]

5. And the two bombs on Japan did not end the war

The idea that it was militarily necessary to drop the atomic bomb in 1945 is now discredited. The first exhaustive examination of Japanese, Soviet and US archives shows that the use of atomic weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not bring about surrender. With 62 Japanese cities destroyed by firebombs and napalm, Japan was not overwhelmed by the destruction of one more. The army minister, General Korechika Anami, told the supreme war council that he would fight on. What actually brought about surrender was the combination of the Soviet Union's entry into the war on August 8 and the US decision to let Japan retain the emperor.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/06/secondworldwar.comment1

[Hoyt]

6. Thank god. I thought you were posting the usual, "we had no choice but to kill 200,000

Japanese" that one gets for criticizing our use of nukes.

[Kablooie]

3. There was no comment on China's possible reaction.

I doubt they would simply sit by and watch all this happening.
They would get involved in some way and that way may not be advantageous to the US.

[FreepFryer]

4. The tacit assumption by some that war would be contained to the peninsula is a grave error. (Nt)