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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

WHY?... why can't we just sit back and ignore the war mongers? We have terrorist attacks because we held the Americas hand when it invaded Iraq and Syria and now Trump is busy making threats at North Korea and North Korea are making threats towards the West. Trump knows NK hasn't got the capabilities to send a long range nuclear missile to America but it has got the capabilities to send nuclear missiles to the UK.

More than ever, right now we need to stay the fcuk out

I'm not sure where you read that DR, but it's exactly the same distance (pretty much to the mile) from NK to the south east coast of the UK as it is from NK to the west coast of California. They would want to hit a population center, so would be San Francisco in the US or London in the UK... both are roughly 5250 miles from NK.

Also, to send a nuke to the UK "as the crow flies" from NK would have it flying over thousands of miles of Chinese airspace and a good chunk of Russia, the whole of Ukraine, Poland, Germany and either Belgium or The Netherlands.

To hit San Fran they only have to go through airspace belonging to South Korea and Japan, both of whom they already have toxic relationships with so it wouldn't matter, then it's 4000 miles of open Pacific.

I can't see how the UK is in any way a more feasible target... without them launching from China. Which would be a whole other can of radioactive worms.