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Re:Japan Wakes to a Text Message: Missile Approaching by andrepd on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:23AM (#15124455)
That is an extremely bad idea. It's easy to talk off-handedly about casualties, but remember these could be on the scale of tens of millions. This is not something which you just shrug and do. Direct military action has almost 0% of occurring, by initiative of the West at least.
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Re:Japan Wakes to a Text Message: Missile Approaching by program_whiz on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:04AM (#15124762)
But if you assume the probability of strike is increasing over time, as is the population of all these areas, then the best alternative (although horrible to imagine), may be sacrificing 10m lives now to save 100m lives in 10 years.

Its not pretty, but can you say you believe given another 10 years unchecked development the likelihood of strike and deaths is lower?

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Re:Japan Wakes to a Text Message: Missile Approaching by Lambdanaut on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:21AM (#15124869)
Like a probabillistic indeterminate game of the trolley problem( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem )
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Re:Japan Wakes to a Text Message: Missile Approaching by yomly on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:38AM (#15124576)
I am not convinced KJU would fear a nuclear fallout. He has nothing to lose. If he were determined to survive, he is sure to have bunkers to protect him and he could almost certainly smuggle himself out of the country.

If he really valued the lives of his citizens, you would probably expect a different means of governing. I don't think you can treat this person as a rational individual when negotiating...

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Re:Japan Wakes to a Text Message: Missile Approaching by usefulcat on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:02AM (#15124745)
Nothing to lose, apart from wealth, power, luxury, the prestige of being the leader of a nation with a large nuclear-equipped military, not to mention quite possibly his life... all things I suspect he values quite highly.
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Re:Japan Wakes to a Text Message: Missile Approaching by dageshi on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:45AM (#15124630)
Once you're away from your powerbase your days are numbered. He must certainly know that he'd be hunted till the end of days, like Bin Laden, like Hussein.
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