Tobin Harshaw, Bloomberg: Attacking North Korea Is Unthinkable. Or Is It?
If radical concessions like pulling troops off the peninsula won't work, the U.S. will have to take out Kim's nukes and artillery from the air.
For any number of foreign-policy pundits, nonproliferation zealots, late-night chatterbots and enterprising T-shirt vendors, the Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un feud has been the gift that keeps on giving career advancement.
Yet for all the debate over how to deal with North Korea's nuclear weapons, there are really only three options. The first, to which the vast majority of national security and military professionals are resigned, is remarkably unsatisfying: live with it. North Korea apparently already has a small arsenal of functioning warheads and its missile tests show an ability to reach the continental U.S. It's too late to turn back the clock. Let's try to keep Kim in a box and focus on not getting into the same pickle with Iran. (Although some of us think that's inevitable as well.)
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WNU Editor: The Iraq war was certainly an eye-opener on the consequences of initiating a war of choice. I can say the same about North Korea ..... there are many military plans on how to handle the North Koreans, but does anyone really believe that such a war will unfold in the manner that its planners think it will. Fortunately ..... attacking North Korea with what we know today is a bridge that is too far for most people in South Korea and the U.S. to take.
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