Think of millions of civilians being slaughtered. Men, women
and children, by the millions, all slaughtered in quick order.
How do you make such an idea acceptable?
Well, if you are the dictator of north Korea, you build nuclear
weapons, demonstrating to your enemies that if they don't
at least risk those millions of losses they'll soon be looking
at tens of millions in casualties.
Like it or not, the reason we never went to war with north
Korea in the past was because of the threat such a war
posed to south Korean civilians. If it weren't for that threat --
the estimated million plus civilian casualties in the opening
HOURS of such a war -- we would have gone to war a long
time ago... when they were kidnapping civilians off the
streets of foreign nations and smuggling them to north Korea..
when they were engaging in assasination... when they were
supplying every crank with the cash to by weapons... when they
seized a U.S. naval vessel on the high seas (a ship north
Korea still holds).
The only reason we are not talking about a war against north
Korea in the past tense is the millions of civilian casualties it
would mean.
Nuclear weapons, stacked on even medium range missiles,
increases the likely casualties from millions to tens of
millions.
Suddenly, thanks to north Korea, a few million casualties
isn't such a big number. Heck, it quite preferable to tens
of millions, isn't it? It's a no-brainer.
"Would you rather millions of innocent people be killed, or
tens of millions?"
That's the question north Korea just asked the world.
We live in DANGEROUS times....
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