If a North Korean nuclear attack happened

[Dill]

(08-10-2017, 07:00 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: No, what kept Iran and North Korea from actually making good on their threats is the fact that North Korea didn't have missiles capable of reaching the US and Iran didn't have enriched uranium. Both of those has changed due to a failure in diplomacy and negotiations.

Don't get me wrong, having an understaffed diplomatic corps ISN'T good. You need them to deal with allies and other rational countries. That doesn't mean it would make a damn bit of difference on North Korea being crazy or not.

Whaaaa . . .?????

You are saying Iran and NK would have suicidally attacked the US IF ONLY they had nuclear weapons capable of reaching the US???

Right now, diplomacy has side-tracked Iran's nuclear program. And NK's was on hold until Bush reneged on a similar agreement. It is precisely when diplomacy failed that NK doubled its efforts to acquire both bombs and missiles capable of carrying them.

A value of a full diplomatic corps would not simply be to deal directly with NK, but also to deal with the many countries we need on board for sanctions to work.