Yeah. Living in South Korea with the threat from North Korea in the 90s was probably the closest I'll come to (well, hopefully the closest I'll come to) to understanding what it was like for my parents' generation (Baby Boomers) growing up with the constant threat (real or perceived) of nuclear war.

NK was almost certainly not going to initiate a war, but they had everything in place to decimate SK if one began by the 90s at least.