the final end to the Korean War?

If you've watched or listened to the radio in the past week then you've probably noticed that since last Monday North Korea are going just a little bit crazy, it was only talking about dismantling its nuclear program last summer and now its talking about breaking the 1953 cease fire and restarting the Korean War now that it has nuclear weapons.

Maybe this was sparked by failed six party talks my recent blog calling for pre-emptive strike on North Korea or the fact that nobody takes Kim Jong iL sewiously I don't know.

The Peoples Republic of China announced two days ago that it is readying for massive immigrations of citizens from North Korea in case a war does break out, but if it does what exactly will happen.

South Korea have the strategic advantage, a smaller army but a larger air force (and 40,000 American soldiers training everyday for this war) which means they will get the strategic advantage, but North Korea is thinking in 1950's terms.

What if Kim thinks its his time, he has nuclear weapons, maybe he's readying to hit Seoul with a nuclear bomb, wipe out power and communication and then send his 1,100,000 sized armed army across the 38th Parallel and unite Korea under his communist rule.

Of course this will never work in the long term, if the US and South Korea (which has no nuclear weapons) continue to fight this war conventional it will indeed have more than 1,000,000 people dead, I'm talking about the entire war not a strike on Seoul.

Although the bomb that they tested last Monday has the yield of the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, delivered by a missile it wouldn't wipe out Seoul but with a city so densely populated (over 10,000,000 people) you're talking at least 100,000 instantly killed by the detonation, the resulting wind would crush people and break windows as far as the city limits, so yes this is a big enough threat.

But the 24 or so MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets that their air force I doubt are configured to carry a homemade nuclear bomb, it is stated that the Taepodong-1 (a missile derived from the Scud missile) is a test bed for multi-stage missile technologies, but the Taepodong-2 which the US states would give North Korea the power to hit almost any country in South East Asia or the west coast of the United States, (George W. Bush never saw this as a threat!).