5. That one's wrong too. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-fuel.html?mcubz=0 …
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6. And there's the old chestnut of a surgical US strike to take out - whatever - to warn North Korea.
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7. North Korea has enormous artillery firepower trained on Seoul. It's like someone holding a hostage with a gun at their head.
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8. ANY US military action, and Seoul's 10 million people are in danger.
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9. But missile defense can stop them. Nope.http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2112889/real-reason-us-hasnt-tried-shoot-down-north-korean-missile?utm_source=Direct …
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10. We have to face it. It's not that hard to build nuclear weapons and missiles. North Korea has many capable scientists and engineers.
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11. They will have a nuclear arsenal within the next few years unless we negotiate them out of it. /fin
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You still see a path towards a successful negotiation on having a nuclear arsenal? I hope I'm too pessimistic, ...
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… but at this stage it seems we've to just live with it. and negotiate towards better guardrails on behaviour.
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I'm generally curious here - you know way more about this than I - an interested amateur - do.
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I think you are talking about full denuclearization? There is no way to that now. But we may be able to, as you say, negotiate guardrails.
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I was wondering about full denuclearization, as I thought you might be referring to it w/ "nuclear arsenal".
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