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North Korea threatens U.S. installations:

North Korea will turn U.S. military bases in the region into a “sea of fire” if war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, North Korean media on Friday quoted a communist officer as saying. The North’s state-run news media highlighted the comment hours after South Korea released a new defense policy paper that revealed a U.S. reinforcement plan to dispatch 690,000 troops and 2,000 warplanes if war breaks out in Korea.

If you actually visit our big posts up near the DMZ–Casey, Hovey, Stanley, etc., they tend to be in fairly isolated places and well within North Korean arty range. I immediately realized that the North Koreans could well shell those posts, kill a few hundred or a few thousand Americans, and not provoke much of a reaction among the South Koreans. In fact, the South Koreans would probably stay out of it. The danger isn’t limited to the DMZ, either. The North Koreans almost certainly have thousands of Special Forces and sleeper agents in the South. Our posts in Taegu, Seoul, and Pusan are right in the middle of towns, and houses crowd up against them. It would be easy to blow holes in the walls and overwhelm us before we knew it.

Bottom line: we should not have ground forces in Korea. Korea should defend itself, unless it won’t, in which case, there will be Darwin Awards for many.