North Korea Nukes Strike Could Happen

North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong Un today ordered his missile batteries to prepare to launch against U.S. and South Korea targets, the latest act of belligerence that has left the United States and the world on edge in recent weeks.

But despite Kim’s menacing posture, the U.S. military recently war-gamed a different scenario: how many American troops would be needed to go in and secure North Korea’s nuclear arsenal if Kim’s regime collapsed.

That was the objective this February when the U.S. military played out its Winter Wargame, that the autocratic rule of Kim Jong Un unraveled either from civil unrest or a challenge to his power and his arsenal of nukes was up for grabs. It’s a scenario that some believe is more likely than a North Korea attack on the south.

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