Because you’re making a distinction without a difference in an effort to stand up for a racist.

Hmmm... I suppose it depends how you define “naval battle”

Wrong place

stfu

Not quite sure what you think Obama’s alternative was? Seriously, please explicate it.

Honestly, this still feels like the best option.

I think the majority of both the DPRK and ROK want the arbitrary political division to end, and want the entire Korean peninsula united. They just can’t agree whether to go with a communist, horrible government or a free-ish democratic capitalist one.

WHAT DOES ANY OF THIS MEAN

Estimates of just American lives lost ran from ~200,000, which seems ridiculously low, into the millions, so still a net positive. Japanese lives would have been at least that, and looking at other land battles in the Pacific, probably 2-5x higher, not even including civilians. And Japanese lives were less important…

China will step in to PREVENT that from happening and ensure they still have a say in what happens in the DPRK or ROK, whatever remains on the Yalu river. There’s no way the DPRK in its present form survives a war like that, and China likely doesn’t want to be in the unenviable position of opposing the US and its…

Even if that were 100% correct, I’m not sure the US would see fit to nuking Pyongyang simply to kill a bunch of “party hacks”.

If you really think WWII is comparable to a regional conflict against an inferior foe, then the subtleties of international politics are lost on you.

I still don’t think so, but I don’t think we’d restrain the ROK from their vengeance, either.

Ending a war that killed 100 million people, yes. Providing deterrence against the Soviets doing the same, yes.

Not gonna end well for those North Korean nuclear guys.

Oh, you mean to explain to us that there really is no good outcome to North Korea using nuclear weapons?

“IMMA BLOW UP THE WORLD!”

I don’t believe the US would respond by nuking Pyongyang.

I don’t think we would target Pyongyang, Cold War style, if that’s what you’re asking. Too many civilians. If the DPRK uses nukes first, I could see the US surgically employing tactical nuclear weapons in a counterforce role simply to make a point. But we’re never going to nuke one of their cities in response.

We still have human assets. It’s just incredibly tough to get anything from the DPRK. It’s like trying to infiltrate the world’s most violent and paranoid cult.