Here s How North Korea Could Goad America and China Into War
War between the United States and China in Korea is unthinkable, but not impossible. Therefore, we have to think about it.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The original Korean War - from 1950 to 1953 - was horrific, but it was a limited war that was confined to the Korean Peninsula and did not involve the use of nuclear weapons. A second Korean War has no such guarantees.
War on the Korean Peninsula is almost too horrible to contemplate.
Nuclear-armed adversaries, fighting in densely populated urban terrain, could cause humanitarian disaster on a scale that the world has never seen. But the scenario might grow even worse. The last time that the United States fought North Korea, the People’s Republic of China intervened with destructive effect. The war lasted for three years, with heavy casualties on both sides. While both China and the United States have worked hard to prevent a recurrence of this catastrophe, the t