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In reply to the discussion: Kim Jong-Un vows to reduce the US to ashes with nuke strikes if DT fires even a single bulllet [View all]DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)63. Iran has made similar threats against Israel
Would they be justified in attacking Iran?
What happens if China comes to the defense of North Korea? And we can not subdue them with conventional weapons do we nuke them ?
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Rustyeye77
Mar 2017
OP
At least we dont have that private server woman, sure there would be world peace
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#26
You are willing to kill millions of people because their leader made an idle threat?
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
#15
If we attack a sovereign nation that hasn't attacked us or anybody it's a war crime.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
#24
I am not an expert either, but it takes more than a threat to justify force.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
#27
If Kim attacks South Korea or Japan we are treaty bound to come to their aide and will do so.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
#59
We would invoke Article 51 of the U N Charter like we did when his dad attacked South Korea
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
#66
I can't imagine a single country that wouldn't be happy to get rid of that creep
yeoman6987
Mar 2017
#51
So you would like to wait until a few hundred thousand die before acting?
former9thward
Mar 2017
#41
We would be pariahs if we attack North Korea in the absence of an imminent threat.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
#18
I have read an attack would be our biggest military operation since WW ll
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
#75
Lets just break out a ruler and measure them already. Maybe we can prevent a war.
briv1016
Mar 2017
#80