He has 60+ nukes, yes he can.
This is pointless, but no he cant, not yet at least.
In all due fairness, we are currently responsible for a lot of the bullshit back and forth that is going on with North Korea. I mean seriously, "my big red button is bigger" just to provoke him? How about we stop provoking him for absolutely no good reason before we talk about first strikes? As far as how many ICBMs, again it isn't how many I'm willing to let them have. It is the fact that we are long past the point of a first strike being an option if it ever was in recent history.
So Trump is an idiot, so I'll get that out of the way. That said, Trump is doing nothing more than Kim, and if you blame Trump, you must also blame Kim. If you see Trump as provoking, the Kim is doing just as much. Also, for as much as Trump is an idiot, to say for no good reason is to ignore how often NK has threatened a preemptive attack. NK does not talk of striking armies, but wiping out all life in the countries they are talking about. They are not talking about defense, but pure genocide.
We are not past the first strike, because if NK is going to keep getting worse, the longer you wait the more damage they will do. So if you think 15+ million deaths is bad, how do you feel about 100+ million? At what point do you try and stop NK from growing its Nuclear power?
Also, NK sure has been pissed at the UN which it said declared war when imposing new sanctions. So what should the international community do?
Well I obviously can't be absolutely positive about my position and sure if I had 100% absolute undeniable proof that NK was about to start nuking the shit out of the planet then I'd support a first strike. Unfortunately we will never get that kind of proof until missiles start flying and I'm not willing to sentence 15+++ million people to death on anything less.
I'm not saying you need to have 100% belief. If you feel like there is a 50/50 chance that in the next 15-20 years that NK will launch and follow through with the preemptive strikes they talk about, then what you would get is far more than 15++++++ dead.
A question for you, specifically what kind of proof would you require before supporting a first strike against North Korea and what would that strike entail? Or do you think that we currently have enough of a reason to hit them and again what would that entail?
I don't know if I would ever support a first strike unless all evidence pointed to NK getting ready to launch. You asked me before what would I do given the power, and I said look for every way other than war. China and Russia are both on board for increasing sanctions and I hope on everything that they work, and it looks like they might be. Please understand that what I say next should be understood in a very specific way and not defending or liking Trump in any way. I think his crazy is being used by the International community to scare Kim because every threat by the UN before has been toothless. Nobody believed there would ever be military action on NK because of the body count. Trump comes along and that assumption goes out the window. I pointed this out a while ago, that this is likely the only good thing to come from Trump, that the fear of what he might do would make people act. Trump is likely being used for this one narrow benefit. I just hope NK does not try and call Trump's bluff because I worry its not a bluff.