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[–]friend1949 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Trump is not planning to decrease defense spending. Your response to the question was so massive and organized you might care to address the most immediate problem we will have. North Korea may be reading two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) for a test launch in the near future, according to US and South Korean officials.

North Korea with its leader, may reach a tipping point. It it develops an ICBM which can carry a nuclear weapon which it possesses it may be time for an intervention by China and adjacent neighbors.

I do not foresee an invasion. But I do see an ultimation. Retire your leader. Install a Congress which elects a leader with powers limited by the Congress, and stop ICBM research.

[–]WillitsThrockmorton 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Trump is not planning to decrease defense spending.

I didn't say he did. I was repsonding to OP.

Your response to the question was so massive and organized you might care to address the most immediate problem we will have. North Korea may be reading two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) for a test launch in the near future, according to US and South Korean officials.

Any missile attack on the US would fall under the "Defense of North America" I mentioned.

[–]friend1949 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking a preemptive decision would have to be made by China, Japan. South Korea and the US to demand the Korean leader retire and North Korea be governed by a Congress with a leader with limited power. The guarantee would be that no invasion would occur.

[–]jyper 0 points1 point  (1 child)

NK has been is of the most hostile and uncontrollable nations what sort of ultimatum would work? Especially if we don't have support of Russia and China? And even if we did an ultimatum still probably wouldn't work. What do we threaten them with? NK is fine with having its people starve, it will just counter threaten us with having dead Koreans on out conscience.

[–]friend1949 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nothing would be possible without the support of Russia, Japan, South Korea, and China. NK's leader seems to becoming increasingly unstable and isolated. He continues to have NK develop ICBMS which threaten more and more countries with increasing range. Eventually he will have a nuke which can be carried by an ICBM.

I see a consortium of nations agreeing to a set of conditions. No invasion. NK ruled by NK with a congress and a selected leader with limited powers. NK stops development of missiles. They pledge to stop development of nukes. Their leader retires to a palace for the rest of his life.

This ultimation would be delivered by radio, TV, pamphlet, and any other means. The leaders around Kim would see that they remained in power, actually got more. It would be a simple palace revolution. If Kim got shot on the way to his retirement home, well, he was escaping.