Do you favor or oppose a pre-emptive military strike on North Korea

[haele]

46. It's not just what they can deliver in a strike.

It's what happens once nuclear weapons start being used - or destroyed in mass quantities.
Warheads are not the only delivery system. And again, we don't know where all his nuclear weapons are stored.

North Korea is a very strange country that actually believe their leader is a God; we'd have to break the country; destroy their leader and several levels down in the government, their military, and their scientific community, to actually remove the threat posed by the Kim dynasty and their religious/political stranglehold there.
Those people have put up with so much - sacrificed their personal futures and actual blood relationships with South Korea - to support their Dear Leader; they aren't just going to dance around singing "Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead!" once Kim is gone. And if he's not deposed by internal methods, the North Koreans will blame the "Corrupt West and Asian Proxies" for their loss of leadership and National identity.

Except for a few actual dissidents, they (as a body politic) don't see us as helping them. They see us as taking away their reason for existence - and the entire country has been trained as an army against our "corruption".

Any nuclear weapons or nuclear resource/infrastructure, left available to North Korean Nationalists after any preemptive strike will be used against us and our allies, one way or another.

There's a reason why preemptive and preventative strikes are considered a last resort. Once it becomes acceptable to throw sovereignty - the respect for a national identification - out the window and just go in and take away another country's armaments without their tacit agreement through diplomacy and treaties, then MAD loses its teeth. And the country that just walks in and takes what they want reduces its own standing as part of the world community - it becomes as much a rogue state as the little dysfunctional government that threatens everyone else.

(Thanks, Bush and Cheney, and all you other PNAC supporters...)

Haele