Yeah, they pose a small threat to those in their immediate vicinity if they are sufficiently provoked, but I also think that threat is highly overblown by those who want you to live in fear so you will vote for them. And those very same people are deliberately provoking NK and Iran for exactly that reason.
Didn't we learn anything from the aftermath of 9/11, and the illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign country based on deliberate lies and deceit? And now you want to do it again? Perhaps even twice?
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Yo, I said nothing about invading North Korea. It would be a humongous blunder to waltz through the DMZ or carpet bomb Pyongyang without anything less than a DPRK pre-emptive strike. Same with Iran. Just because I disagree with you it does not make me a gun totin' bible thumpin neocon with a hardon for watching bombing runs on CNN.
Also, the military statistics of North Korea are pretty much furnished by the North Koreans themselves, and it's backed up by Chinese, Russian, South Korean, Japanese, etc intelligence. Small threat to you must mean something different than it does to me, because even though the working efficiency of those artillery pieces just north of Seoul might be exaggerated...it's still a humongous threat.
Also2, numbers wise, the North Korean army, navy, and airforce are rather large. Whether victory would be assured in the long run is not important, by then damage conceivably done to South Korea would be severe.
Also3, how exactly is the US provoking North Korea?
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