highsea

I don't think South Korea would have supported that. And China certainly would have come down on Kim's side. IOW, it would have been war.

I don't think you can play a conventional card against a nuke card. IMO, the only way would have been to convince China that Japan was going to go nuclear if NorK did.

First and foremost, it's China's problem. They are the ones that have to deal with a nuclear peninsula, and radiation does not care about borders. They failed to prevent Kim from getting a nuke, so South Korea and Japan are within their rights of self defense to do the same.

Let's get our forces out of the line of fire, and MAD sort it out. The last thing China wants is a nuclear exchange on the Korean Peninsula.

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