farnham said:what are they supposed to do ?
no china is the bigger issue
if america messes with NK they are messing with china
:lol No.
The only reason China even cares about NK is because they don't want millions of refugees running into China when war breaks out and NK inevitably collapses and people are able to escape that shithole. The world wouldn't be happy with China if they sat at the border gunning down refugees to thin the herd, and they don't need a few million more people to feed.
The other problem with war is that NK has enough artillery and short range missles/rockets to completely destroy South Korea. There is no way for the US to destroy every weapons platform in NK before they launch at least a volley at SK, and unfortunately forcefields don't exist so there is no way to stop that much weapons fire from destroying SK.