Sydney Morning Herald: North Korea: a terrifying glimpse into what war with Kim Jong-un's military would look like
As many as 64,000 could die in the first three hours of a war unlike any seen in generations, perhaps ever.
Robert Kelly is an American living in South Korea. As is well known to the more than 25 million viewers who've watched the hilarious video of his children bursting into his BBC interview, the Korea expert has a young family.
While Kelly is sceptical that tensions over North Korea's nuclear program will lead to war, he and his wife regularly discuss what they will do if there is an attack by the North on Busan, where Kelly teaches at the city's university.
"With a young family I take it seriously and my wife and I talk about it whenever these things pop up – what to do, where to go, what to pack," he said.
Busan in the south would be in range of the North's ballistic missiles, including nukes. The THAAD shield system might stop some of them but not all.
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WNU Editor: No one doubts that in any hypothetical major conflict on the Korean peninsula the causalities rates will be astronomical .... and in turn the hope is that this realisation is more than enough to dissuade all parties from starting a war. But North Korea has always been a special case .... and with cause. They have a long history of provocations .... and one day a provocation may just be enough to literally explode the entire peninsula into war.
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