{"id":346707,"date":"2018-02-04T01:40:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T00:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/korea-what-the-generals-arent-telling-you\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T01:40:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T00:40:33","slug":"korea-what-the-generals-arent-telling-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/korea-what-the-generals-arent-telling-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea: What the Generals Aren\u2019t Telling You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The retired Generals on the talk-show circuit look grim.\u00a0 They say if the US attacks North Korea, it will retaliate and bomb Seoul, South Korea\u2019s capitol.\u00a0 Hundreds of thousands could die.\u00a0 The Generals look even grimmer.\u00a0 There will be a ground invasion.\u00a0 Result? A possible 20,000 casualties <em>per<\/em> day.<\/p>\n<p>No one mentions the X factor.<\/p>\n<p>James Mattis, H.R. McMaster, Rex Tillerson, John Kelly, Nickki Haley \u2013 not a peep from them either.<\/p>\n<p>In his State of the Union address the President lingers on the gruesome death of Otto Warmbier, promises \u201cResolve.\u201d Trump also won\u2019t touch it.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four.\u00a0 South Korea has 24 operating nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n<p>Fact: All of the recent US-coalition wars have involved countries where there were <strong>no<\/strong> \u2013 repeat no \u2013 large, operating nuclear power plants.\u00a0 Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya.\u00a0 None of them had or has any large, commercial nuclear-reactors at the time of these wars.\u00a0 Thus, bombing missions, for all their hideous destructiveness, have not put at risk, the huge amounts of cesium-137, strontium-90 and other deadly radioactive contaminants in reactor cores.<\/p>\n<p>So how do 24 nuclear power plants change the equation regarding a US war versus North Korea \u2013 a war which, by most predictions, quickly morphs into a war both on South and North Korea soil?<\/p>\n<p>After the US launches a strike (pre-emptive or not) the Kim Jong Un regime unleashes artillery located immediately north of the DMZ.\u00a0 Hidden behind blast&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/02\/korea-what-the-generals-arent-telling-you\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retired Generals on the talk-show circuit look grim.\u00a0 They say if the US attacks North Korea, it will retaliate and bomb Seoul, South Korea\u2019s capitol.\u00a0 Hundreds of thousands could die.\u00a0 The Generals look even grimmer.\u00a0 There will be a ground invasion.\u00a0 Result? A possible 20,000 casualties per day. No one mentions the X factor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}