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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] That's the whole problem... Kim Jong Il probably [i]is[/i] nuts enough to not care about mutually-assured destruction. Even if in his case, assuming he doesn't have globally-reaching missiles and enough warheads to carpet-bomb the entire US, even a nuclear war would be extremely one-sided, although still unbelievably messy (to put it mildly). Think about it: at this point, most analysts figure that the DPRK has one or two warheads, with enough material to make maybe a dozen at most. It's been two years (almost) that they've been working at actually building the bombs. So assuming that this standoff doesn't go on indefinitely, we're talking about less than a hundred nukes, most likely only a tiny fraction of that number. Compare that to the thousands in the US arsenal... It goes without saying, though, that any nuclear warfare, even if it were "limited" (in that it wouldn't be the big US-USSR-scale World War III that people were afraid of during the Cold War) would still be incredibly catastrophic for all concerned. Even if Kim couldn't reach the US directly, making a mess of South Korea and Japan would cause so much havoc (militarily, politically, economically, and environmentally) that we'd be in pretty big trouble anyway. Plus, if one country (even one as nutty as North Korea) breaks the long-standing tradition of not using nukes (at least since their "demonstrations" in WWII), it would remove a lot of the barriers for other, more rational countries to start using nukes too. Dare I mention India and Pakistan? Or Israel? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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