[Marxism] Re: What will be effect of N Korea nuclear test?

["David McDonald" <dbmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Othe reasons to suspect there will not be a military response by the US to
the DPRK's nuclear test:

1. The Chinese will not allow it. How could it possibly be in the interest
of China for the US to deploy and use weaponry, nuclear or otherwise, ON
THEIR BORDER?

2. The Japanese will not allow it. They may themselves create some nukes,
but the people of Japan are pretty well inoculated against the idea that it
is good to have the US wielding weaponry in the area. So where would the US
invasion be staged from?

3. The South Koreans will not allow it. Regardless of the government's
desires, the Korean people are strongly for unification and you can't unify
with a part of your country that has been taken out for thousands of years
by nukes. Any South Korean government that even threatened to countenance a
US strike of any sort against the DPRK would be out on its ear in no time.
Syngman Rhee is dead.

There are 30,000 US hostages in military uniform sitting in Seoul as we
speak. How would they be defended if the DPRK attacked them with the 40,000
artillery pieces it has aimed at Seoul, in the wake of a US attack? Wouldn't
the South Koreans blame the US if their country were about to be ruined by a
US adventure?

4. The North Koreans will not allow it.





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