I agree with Niko on pretty much every point except that we should wait until N Korea strikes. I don't think that would be a wise descision. China and Japan own N Korea. All they have to do is put sanctions on them and the N Koreans will starve.
N Korea has been threatening to nuke us for decades. They just want bloody money and now they are getting a little frusturated because now they aren't the center of attention.
And Nikoo, just because they have a large military doesn't mean they have a good military. Look what happened to Russia in WW1. N. Korea is underequipped and the technology they have is around 50 years old. The US would absolutely annihilate them in a war.
I don't think the US will strike and I don't think N Korea will strike. Once Japan and China pl
Sanactions yes that may strave them but sanacations isn't military action. Frankly as I have said N. Kroea doesn't scare me. And yes Russian army was defeated in WW1 because their gov had fallen, and the communist took power and didn't punish the soilders, and the soliders knew it.
After the communist powers took a strong hold, in WW2 the russians surferred 15 million soliders dead, 15 million civilians dead, 7 million soliders dead. Population wise they are compareable to America. Germany lost I believe 1.5 or 2.0 million soldiers on that front. A communist gov was able to take anywhere from 1 to 24 to 1 to 19 dead or wounded without the public backfiring. I fully believe N. Korea could do the same.
Their armies wouldn't be a match to what would go aganist them, but it'd still be a bloody war either way because of what N. Korea could inflict on S. Korea in the first few mins of the war. After a month or two I forseen the armies taking out those artierlly but a lot of civilians will dye in the process so military action isn't wise.
As the last remaining Super Power it is our responsibility to police the world. We are allowed to have missiles when others can't because we aren't insane. Iran wants to bomb Israel and the Wester World and North Korea wants to nuke the Western World to get some $$.
Its not your responsbility, thats what the UN was created for. They are the world ploice, let them do their job. As for the western powers having nukes I believe its keep a balance, if a country has nukes, no country attacks that country because each country knows the price. However countries like Iran, and N. Korea aren't stable enough to hold such weopons.
At the rate China is growing, America won't be a super power in 10 to 15 years.