North Korea Mega Thread

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I'm increasingly convinced the only way out is to just bribe Kim and the entire leadership out of the country (with lifelong immunity) and let a puppet of the Chinese run the place to force through some Dengism. Not a very elegant solution for many reasons (criminals getting off scot free, Dengism is still awful, Chinese get their way) but better than this.

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also lol at King Lear's runaway proliferation solution. Surely it would be an awesome idea for every unstable regime with threatened leaders to get their hands on a few nukes!

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Lindsey Graham says there's a 30% chance US will strike NK, rising to 70% if they conduct another nuclear test: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/lindsey-graham-war-north-korea-trump/548381/

Missile or nuclear?

Nuclear.  The full quote is:

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That quote doesn't  necessarily imply the US will use nuclear missiles though?  All it says that is that as a result of DPRK testing another nuclear weapon, their is a strong chance of a military response; that could be conventional.

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Yeah, I think the US would go conventional, at least at first. The post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki taboo is pretty strong after all.