At 04:34 PM 8/13/01, Jeroen wrote:
>At 09:35 13-8-01 -0500, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
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>>>(1) The North Korean leaders are very aware of the superior firepower of
>>>the US and therefore the stupidity of even *attempting* an invasion.
>>
>>
>>It didn't stop them 50 years ago, when they and everyone else in the
>>world knew the US had the ultimate in "superior firepower" and could have
>>used it to stop the invasion . . .
>
>But did the US have all that superior firepower already lined up at border
>the between North and South Korea 50 years ago, *before* the invasion?
They had B-36s and B-47s "on alert"--loaded and ready to go--against the
Soviet Union.
You seem to be missing the question: The US had an overwhelming
superiority in nuclear weapons in 1950, had used them in war 5 years
earlier, and actually considered using them to stop the invasion of SK by
NK, and NK still invaded SK. 50 years later, NK has its own nuclear
program and for the US to use nuclear weapons (except perhaps in response
to a first strike from one of the other nuclear powers) is literally
unthinkable, so it would seem like NK had more to fear in 1950 than now . . .
--Ronn! :)
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