georgephillip
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"Here’s what war with North Korea would look like
A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn’t be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse.
By Yochi Dreazen Updated Feb 8, 2018, 7:39am EST..."
Here’s what war with North Korea would look like
"So I’ve spent the past month posing those questions to more than a dozen former Pentagon officials, CIA analysts, US military officers, and think tank experts, as well as to a retired South Korean general who spent his entire professional life preparing to fight the North.
"They’ve all said variants of the same thing: There is a genuine risk of a war on the Korean Peninsula that would involve the use of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Several estimated that millions — plural — would die.
"Even more frightening, most of the people I spoke to said they believed Kim would use nuclear weapons against South Korea in the initial stages of the fighting — not just as a desperate last resort."
By some estimates North Korea possesses 2500 - 5000 metric tons of chemical weapons and the means to deliver them on US military bases in South Korea as well as the civilian population of Seoul.
While there's little doubt about the final outcome, the number of casualties could change history in ways hard to imagine.
A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn’t be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse.
By Yochi Dreazen Updated Feb 8, 2018, 7:39am EST..."
Here’s what war with North Korea would look like
"So I’ve spent the past month posing those questions to more than a dozen former Pentagon officials, CIA analysts, US military officers, and think tank experts, as well as to a retired South Korean general who spent his entire professional life preparing to fight the North.
"They’ve all said variants of the same thing: There is a genuine risk of a war on the Korean Peninsula that would involve the use of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Several estimated that millions — plural — would die.
"Even more frightening, most of the people I spoke to said they believed Kim would use nuclear weapons against South Korea in the initial stages of the fighting — not just as a desperate last resort."
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By some estimates North Korea possesses 2500 - 5000 metric tons of chemical weapons and the means to deliver them on US military bases in South Korea as well as the civilian population of Seoul.
While there's little doubt about the final outcome, the number of casualties could change history in ways hard to imagine.