This Is How North Korea Will Survive A U.S. Attack

North Korean special forces soldiers march during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of the country’s founding father, Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 15. (Reuters)

Daniel L. Davis, National Interest: How North Korea Plans to Survive a U.S. Attack

A so-called preventive military strike would not only fail to resolve the threat to U.S. personnel and U.S. allies, but worsen it.

Last Friday National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster emphatically told reporters that despite what many have said to the contrary, “there is a military option” for North Korea. Tuesday afternoon at the United Nations, President Trump went even further, saying that if he felt certain conditions warranted it, then he would have no choice “but to totally destroy North Korea.” The president and his national security advisor, however, are wrong. Engaging in a “preventive war” with Pyongyang, as McMaster phrased it last month, would turn a tense situation into a catastrophic failure for America. There is no cost-effective military option and claiming there is only puts America’s security at risk.

One doesn’t have to be a military expert to see why a so-called preventive military strike would not only fail to resolve the threat to U.S. personnel and U.S. allies, but worsen it. Two anecdotes and a brief assessment of North Korean capability exposes the futility of “preventive” war.

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WNU Editor: Daniel L. Davis focuses on the use of conventional weapons in the event of a war with North Korea ... .and he is correct .... North Korea will survive such a conflict, while inflicting a heavy price on South Korea and U.S. forces.  But as I explained yesterday .... because North Korea is now a nuclear power that is working (and boasting) that they have a system to deliver these weapons, if war should break out the U.S. will not see this as a conventional conflict but as a nuclear one, and will act accordingly (see link here). That is a completely different war scenario .... and a new reality .... but one that many analysts and pundits are still very reluctant to acknowledge.