Comment Re:A strange game.... (Score 1) 597
We can prevent NK from bombing Seoul or marching 35 miles, if we strike hard enough in the first strike. It would help if China was on board, but it's not necessary.
We possibly could but that's not the real threat to the South.
NK is believed to have at least thirteen thousand artillery tubes pointed at Seoul. Most of them are embedded. We don't have that many bunker-buster bombs in inventory. We can't deliver that many precision munitions in an hour even if we did, and we don't know where most of the tubes are. Even the most conservative estimates (such as the recent one by Roger Cavazos) put the death toll at 30,000 Seoul civilians where the high end one count in the millions. And that's just the first hours.