Korea

I feel that the recent flight of two B-2 bombers was meant to let North Korea know the U.S. will possible respond if it or South Korea is attacked. But how will the US respond is the question.

“This is important for two reasons: The north only respects one thing — strength and power,” said retired Army Col. David Maxwell. “It is important to demonstrate that strength and will. Second, the north will not attack in the face of strength and readiness.” Under the International Law umbrella, I have been studying how states and non states interact with one another. Under the International Law umbrella, I have been pondering realism and idealism quiet a bit, which is wrong and which is right or maybe a mixture of the both. I believe this quote above reveals America's attitude and behavior, I'm not saying its wrong or right, but the B-2 Bombers sent to Korea war definitely a realism approach to the issue in North Korea. “Ironically the stronger we are the less there is a chance of miscalculation by the regime,” Maxwell said in an email. “If we show daylight in the alliance they will try to exploit that and then we are going to have trouble.” How do you seek an idealist approach when a country avoids negotiations stating and believes the armistices that ended the Korean war to be void?  

Being a military commander, I bet it is hard to take an idealistic approach to any conflict. You have the strongest military in the world and you are in control of that military in some capacity, why wouldn't you want to use it! I believe it can be very tempting to just say, "we can send in the military". And to give commanders some slack, that is their job. That is why they are in the military, to command and lead soldiers in war. 

The B-2 bombers flew from an American base all the way to South Korea to drop fake munitions on an Island off the mainland of South Korea and then back to America in all in one mission. No stopping, so there is no doubt it was to warn the N. Korean.“Tension rises almost every year when it’s time for the U.S.-South Korean drills to take place, but as soon as those drills end, things quickly return to normal,” Sung Hyun-sang said in Seoul. North Korea’s latest threats are seen as efforts to test the new government in Seoul, led by President Park Geun-hye, to change its policies toward Pyongyang. North Korea’s moves at home to order troops into “combat readiness” also are seen as ways to build domestic unity as Kim Jong Un, who took power after his father’s death in December 2011, strengthens his military credentials. I am looking forward to the response of Kim Jong-un to the warning.