Planning For A Failed Nuclear State In North Korea

The US Army Is Planning For A Failed Nuclear State In North Korea -- Business Insider

Don't mind the headlines.

Crippling sanctions, starving soldiers, and an antiquated, rickety military collectively push the idea of a concerted North Korean strike to the fringes of credibility.

Planners in Washington envision a more insidious threat: the untimely collapse of Kim Jong-un's government.

Paul McLeary of Defense News posted today about a classified military wargame that played out the sudden collapse of North Korea and the immediate actions of the U.S. Military.

McLeary writes:

The Unified Quest war game conducted this year by Army planners posited the collapse of a nuclear-armed, xenophobic, criminal family regime that had lorded over a closed society and inconveniently lost control over its nukes as it fell.


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My Comment: North Korea is not going to be like East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell .... the German's were ready for reunification (to a point), but today's Korea is definitely not. If anything .... the South Koreans are hesitant about reunification .... especially when they look at how expensive it has become for West Germany to absorb East Germany .... a prospect that I am sure is not at all appetizing for the South Korean taxpayer.

But there are bigger issues involved .... and when it comes to North Korea it is it's WMD stockpiles. There is no doubt in my mind that it will be an immense undertaking to secure these stockpiles, and while I do expect South Korea to provide the necessary manpower and resources to do this job, the U.S. military with it's expertise will need to also get involved .... and involved very quickly.

In short .... and this is an easy prediction .... it is not going to be 'pretty'.