Generational Dynamics World View

[David Horn]

(06-29-2021, 05:25 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: China and North Korea have nukes.  If those countries launch Crisis wars, to reclaim what they see as their territory, we should consider what they may do.

We might see what I would describe as a hostage situation.  The hostages might be, for example, Japanese cities.  

Stripped of diplomatic niceties, the message to outside powers (such as the USA) would be-back off, or Tokyo will be nuked.  

Think back a few years, when North Korea flew a missile over Japan.  Japan is close enough to both North Korea and China that neither needs a full fledged ICBM to hit Japan.

We have hypersonic weapons, and, I suspect, so do the Koreans and Japanese. We know that both have missile defense shields. Nuclear threats can be dicey, but neither China nor the PDRK want to get into a hot nuclear war with the US -- especially when success is far from guaranteed.