If Korea want to monkey - well think they will threaten
their big neighours like china & russia also .
The target is USA, not Russia, not China.
USA.
USA is the one threatening them.
On 9 July 1950 - just two weeks into the war, it is worth
remembering - MacArthur sent Ridgway a hot message that prompted
the joint chiefs of staff (JCS) "to consider whether or not A-bombs
should be made available to MacArthur". The chief of operations,
General Charles Bolte, was asked to talk to MacArthur about using
atomic bombs "in direct support [of] ground combat". Bolte thought
10-20 such bombs could be spared for Korea without unduly
jeopardizing US global war capabilities.
Boite received
from MacArthur an early suggestion for the tactical use of atomic
weapons and an indication of MacArthur's extraordinary ambitions
for the war, which included occupying the North and handling
potential Chinese - or Soviet - intervention: "I would cut them off
in North Korea . . . I visualize a cul-de-sac. The only passages
leading from Manchuria and Vladivostok have many tunnels and
bridges. I see here a unique use for the atomic bomb - to strike a
blocking blow - which would require a six months' repair job.
Sweeten up my B-29 force."....
On
9 December MacArthur said that he wanted commander's discretion to
use atomic weapons in the Korean theatre. On 24 December he
submitted "a list of retardation targets" for which he required 26
atomic bombs. He also wanted four to drop on the "invasion forces"
and four more for "critical concentrations of enemy air
power".
In
interviews published posthumously, MacArthur said he had a plan
that would have won the war in 10 days: "I would have dropped 30 or so
atomic bombs . . . strung across the neck of Manchuria". Then he
would have introduced half a million Chinese Nationalist troops at
the Yalu and then "spread behind us - from the Sea of Japan to the
Yellow Sea - a belt of radioactive cobalt . . . it has an active
life of between 60 and 120 years. For at least 60 years there could
have been no land invasion of Korea from the North." He was certain
that the Russians would have done nothing about this extreme
strategy: "My plan was a cinch"
http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/0503A_Cumings.html
