N. Korea approves nuclear strike on United States: How do you feel about that?

In all truth, I have two parts of me.

One part says, do it and you're all glass.
The 2nd part is my compassionate/political side...and it's much more considerate and complex.

But frankly, I think if they are stupid enough to instigate something...then it will likely end in a scenario of what we had in Germany/Berlin at the end of WWII.
I doubt that the US would actually use nukes...too much political impact, especially with China nearby.
But likely it would be the US/SK diving in full hilt with contemporary military, like Kuwait...with China reacting and meeting the other way.
NK as we know it would be gone, with China and the US splitting the difference.
Not to keep, but maintain like Germany/Berlin...and over time what was left of NK would be propped up by the Big Countries, then worked out and integrated with SK for a full Korea.

The only real question would be how many nukes NK would get off before it would finish, if at all in reality...and where would they launch.
But if they did anything initially...the world couldn't let it stand. Too much of a precedent to not respond to...for any country.

 

This is morbidly fascinating. The three North Korean weapons tests are listed in the yield presets. NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

 

That is very morbidly fascinating. I dropped one of NK's bombs on Portland. It failed to wipe out all of the hipsters.

 

With all due respect, this is downplaying it a bit much. Ethiopia hasn't tried anything resembling intentions to one day land on the moon (not to my knowledge anyway). More realistically, it would be like a nation saying it's going to land on the moon after a) shooting a small, unmanned rocket to the moon, and b) successfully manning a "moon landing" on the sea floor. This means that in theory they have some semblance of the ingredients to do a moon landing: a) rocketeering (or whatever it's called), and b) manning a moon lander (or sea lander, whatever).

But to think they can put a and b together is quite a stretch.

This is the case with North Korea. We know they have a) short-, medium-, and long-range missile capability, and b) the capacity to detonate a nuclear device. They are, however, quite unlikely to have the capability of putting this nuclear strike a and b together. Some don't even think they have the right materials for a proper weapon.

 

Actually, that is my concern being relatively near DC.
So seeing what an improvised device being set off would impact the immediate inner city area...but not farther than that.
So, unless I'm doing a project within the city...it's about escaping the fallout.

Nice to know I need to think about these things.

But, it's estimated that NK has around 15-25 bombs, if it could get them all off...but their capacity at its highest tested isn't big.
Seoul would likely be the most impacted by its proximity.
But the rest of the nation would easily survive.

It's certainly not a huge threat to either the US or China...but they don't want to chance it anyway, understandably so.

I still say, if something did happen...it would be a Post-WWII Germany/Berlin scenario.

 

I'm in Pentagon City Mall. I'm toast.