"One-third of Americans would support a preemptive nuclear strike on North Korea, researchers say"
I definitely would have supported it... in years previous.
But that would have been just before... or just after... the Norks had demonstrated "proven nuclear capabilities". Today, that ship may have sailed.
This still doesn't rule out the possibility that someday... NK might do something crazy enough to warrant a nuclear response.
I posted here a year or two ago the pathway for a denuclearized and reunited Korea:
Make a deal with the Chinese:
You give us Korea (which we will re-unite and keep non-nuclear), and...
... in return, we will give you Taiwan, in a Hong-Kong like deal that grants Taiwan status as a semi-independent partner of China for 30-40 years, after which China is ceded full "ownership".
A "grand Machiavellian bargain", so to speak.
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A strong demurral.
The only Korea that matters is the South where much of the
North migrated during the Japanese Occupation of 1910-45.
Basic agriculture is impossible in the North because of it's rock-pile
terrain as Fishing and food imports are their salvation.
As such re-unification is irrelevant.
As for power, they have neither an Air Force or a Navy!
About Taiwan/Formosa, it was the home of the Kuomintang and
Chiang Kai-Shek after the Communists took power in 1949 and
their people want nothing to do w/Beijing anymore than
Hong Kong or Singapore do!
As for China, our media assholery have elevated them to a ranking
world power. OK, they're an Asian land mass of 1.4 billion people
and so what?
China, controlled by autocrats, be they Emperors, Militarists or
Marxists; for some 4000 years, has never, ever, exhibited the
creativity, innovation and individualism which are prerequisites
for economic powers such as Great Britain and Germany.
This is the reason they have always cheated, lied and stolen.
We hardly need bargains w/their type.
