(cont.) because the US cannot sustain the losses which China can in a nuclear war, nor can the US begin to match the resources the PRC could deploy in a conventional war in Korea.

But here's the most frightening thing.  NK might just be a sacrificial pawn, knowingly or unknowingly, used by China and Russia to destroy the US.  Both Russia & China might well let NK do their dirty work for them.

Here's how that would work.  The US has no effective civil defense program or ABM defense.  The DIA assumed that NK had at least 60 nuclear warheads last August;  certainly NK has more by now.

If NK deployed all of their resources:

1)Cyber

2) Biological

3) Chemical

4) Nuclear

5) EMP

6) Sabotage

7) Armed satellites

against the US, they could kill hundreds of millions of Americans.

NK would sustain severe damage to be sure.  But they are prepared;  NK is a poor, mountainous country which makes it difficult to attack with nuclear weapons.

NK is an extremely militaristic culture. (cont.