af773atmsp wrote:We didn't learn a f*cking thing from the Cold War, did we? And I'll bet we won't learn anything once North Korea becomes a stable place. Rinse and repeat.
Sorry, its just awful knowing that we still live in a world where we could end ourselves in nuclear warfare.
I don't think it's a fair comparison to compare NK to a former superpower like Russia, who the public believed, mostly incorrectly that their weapon sophistication bested ours, or at least kept in parity with our tech and resources for strategic arsenals.
We won economically by forcing them to spend into the ground, while NK starves their country doing the same thing after producing just a tiny percent of what Russia's armarment consisted of.
It's in China's interest to have a barrier between the west and its borders, I can't see how the South or the US could afford or otherwise take care of millions and millions of starved refugees. They have three enemies, the US, China, and internal threats such as starvation. It's a chess game to curtail those threats, what's easier, confrontation or just throwing a few scraps of aid to keep the status quo.
Nobody knows the effectiveness or not of the missile defense capabilities of the US military... but I hope it never comes to a real life scenerio to find out.