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Originally Posted by noonereal

but if we followed international law, would not China be part of the decision making process? If we were attacked directly so that we needed to respond directly China would be notified of exactly what our intentions were.
Hence I don't think our actions would drawn in anyone else.
If we pull and Iraq in that part of the world then your question is a concern.

Notifying China of what our intentions were isn't making them part of the decision making process; it's informing them of a decision already made. If the decision was made to hit NK with nuclear missiles in response to an attack on the USA, China couldn't prevent it but it could react if thousands of its people died because of it. It's not a question of how could they react, it's how would they most likely react.

It's interesting. I grew up at a time when nuclear missiles were thought of as a deterrent; if the deterrent failed they'd have not served their purpose. But now we could be up against our worst nightmare; trying to face off countries lead by people who as long as they think they have an escape route don't care what happens to their own countries or worse still, the genuine fruitcakes who don't care if they die as long as they take the 'Great Saten' (plus its allies) with them.