KW: This is so true. Without the threat of being able to take out a U.S. ally like Japan or South Korea or Guam the U.S. would have already invaded North Korea and killed Kim Jong Un because it says North Korea is a threat,what ever to I don’t know, certainly not to North America itself but maybe that is closer now than it has ever been. It is only nuclear weapons that is saving North Korea from the same fate as Iraq, Libya and Syria where the Americans are simply destroying those countries and destabalising the regions.
“In the early 1950s, during the Korean War, the US dropped more bombs on North Korea than it had dropped in the entire Pacific theater during World War II. This carpet bombing, which included 32,000 tons of napalm, often deliberately targeted civilian as well as military targets, devastating the country far beyond what was necessary to fight the war. Whole cities were destroyed, with many thousands of innocent civilians killed and many more left homeless and hungry….
According to US journalist Blaine Harden: “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops.”