The US has a ton of leverage, mainly over China. NK can destroy Seoul with conventional bombardment (they have something like 7,000 artillery pieces that will take longer to find and destroy than they will to go through most of their shells). They don't have enough nukes to get past American missile defense. If we don't emplace missile defense around Tokyo, then I suppose they could nuke Tokyo, and that would suck, but then what? then KJU dies. And the thing KJU most wants: to live and rule, but mostly to live.
>If we don't emplace missile defense around Tokyo, then I suppose they could nuke Tokyo, and that would suck, but then what? then KJU dies. And the thing KJU most wants: to live and rule, but mostly to live.
You'd be surprised what a leader want or doesn't want, especially in a time of national crisis. To "live" is more of a preoccupation for mere mortals.
