patrick.net

The die were cast yesterday, and now the sooner, the better in terms of reducing damage to Seoul and Japan.

There will be tremendous bombardment of North Korean conventional forces by U.S., South Korean, Australian and Japanese air and naval assets, while the U.S. will unleash the largest flurry of their latest and most advanced bunker-busting busting missiles in history to target North Korean hardened missile sites and command and control centers.

South Korea and Japan will be stuck with the overwhelming share of rebuilding the former North Korean infrastructure and providing humanitarian assistance, while South Korea will pay for its integration into the whole of of a unified Korea (which will place massive burden on South Korean coffers and drag future economic growth lower for next decade).