A war with North Korea would be bad. North Korea has emplacements like Hezbollah and Ansar Allah with thousands of heavy artillery pieces in the mountains along the Korean border.
Like those of the other two groups, they are located deep inside mountains in solid rock. They have door or silos that open up, artillery pieces come out, fire, go back in their holes, and a huge door closes. They can all pop out and fire simultaneously in large numbers.
Americans say they can defeat North Korea in a war, but it would be horrible. North Korea would fire so much artillery into South Korea that 300,000 people would be killed in Seoul within a week.
If North Korea did that, I figure the US would go nuclear. A conventional war with North Korea is too costly. And now that it has 50 nuclear weapons, any attack on North Korea, certainly any challenge to the regime, and North Korea would go nuclear pretty quickly.
It would probably fire a nuclear missiles at Guam. Its nuclear weapons are good and th…
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