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| Stratfor: Red Alert: North Korea -- Is There a Military Solution? |
| 2006-10-09 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 Sub; surface, launch multiple cruise missles at specific targets (nuke facilities, kimmy, whatever else deemed important); sink back under the waves. Who, us? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-09 19:39 |
| #4 In any case, I think it would be best just to destroy Kim's defenses and make it possible for the civilians to march in and take care of him themselves. Then get tons of food, fertilizer, etc. in there to stave off mass starvation. No need to destroy everything. |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-10-09 18:28 |
| #3 Considering that most of the NKor population is living at an 1830's level right now, OS, that drop back in time won't be as hard on them as a true technological society. Only Pyongyang and a couple of the industrial cities have any electrical power for even a few hours, and almost no factories are functioning. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2006-10-09 18:18 |
| #2 Atomic carpet bombing. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-10-09 16:41 |
| #1 There is, but it isn't pretty - and it will push China an SKor hard becaue it may collapse the ability of Kim's mafia to control what's left of the army and the country. Massive refugees crisis, and within 6 weeks, probably starvation deaths of 1/3 or more of the civlian populace of NKor, given winter is coming. Take out the civli infrastructure: key bridges, rail lines and railyards, fuel distribution, power distribution junctions and all power generation. This includes the Nork side of all bridges, rail, power and phone lines to China. Welcome to the 1350's, North Korea. If this comes down its going to be a very cold winter there, and a fouls pring ans millions of corpses rot when they thaw. The trick is to neutralize all the artillery within range of Seoul quickly before the countervalue strikes. I leave that as an exercise to the reader. There are some particularly brutal ways of doing it. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-10-09 16:29 |