The Case For Launching A Preemptive Strike Against North Korea

Bomb North Korea, Before It’s Too Late -- Jeremi Suri, New York Times

SINCE February, the North Korean government has followed one threatening move with another. The spiral began with an underground nuclear test. Then the North declared the armistice that ended the Korean War invalid. The young dictator Kim Jong-un followed with a flurry of threats to attack civilian targets in South Korea, Japan and the United States.

Earlier this week, North Korea closed the Kaesong Industrial Complex, the only facility where citizens from North and South Korea work together. And now the North is openly threatening (and visibly preparing) to fire a mobile-launcher-based Musudan missile with a range that could reach many of the places Mr. Kim has menaced in his public statements. American intelligence agencies believe that North Korea is working to prepare even longer-range delivery systems to carry the nuclear warheads already in its arsenal.

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My Comment: I am not buying the case to launch a preemptive strike against North Korea .... because to do so will guarantee one thing .... we will have war on the Korean peninsula .... and this war will make the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria (combined) look puny in comparison.

The Iraq war was a war of choice that we should not have made. A war of choice on the Korean peninsula will result in a crisis that will even dwarf 9/11 .... and all but guarantee a political/economic/and military crisis in the entire Asian region for years to come.