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Originally Posted by Shadow Minato
Since the enemy is North Korea, points 1 & 2 should be ignored. The strategy should be to carpet-bomb them if they do try a counterstrike after their long-rang missile is intercepted. Most likely, those possible human shields and combat outposts are occupied by North Korean agents in disguise; who would want to bother with their safety?
Point 3 is quite important and thus, it is best to not fall into the enemy's hands. If that scenario is possible, soldiers and agents may fall into an actual risk of becoming POWs should take their own life whether they like it or not because that way.. They actually get to choose their way of dying, reducing possible undesirable North Korean interrogation. However, if the same scenario occurs to non-combatant civilians. The only answer would be a threat to destroy Pyongyang altogether, unless the hostages are released within a time limit. A time limit is necessary to ensure that the non-combatants do not suffer at the hands of the North Korean agents.
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You have a number of good points there. but North Korea's army is not to be taken lightly, for it is known that they have forcibly conscripted South's civilians and indoctrinated ROK soldiers into their ranks in the Korean War. Given the ROK's better training, it will bolster the North's capability to fight off the Coalition if time drags on for too long.
Japan's attempt to Aegis the missile may not seem like a good idea, though it is not known for NK to have submarines to torpedo the ship, but their SOB (Special Operations Branch, and yes, pun intended) might hijack the ship like how USS Pueblo is done. North Korea's army is a one time use wildcard, can be very damaging, but lasts for only a while. Damage is certainly massive to a scale.
It is a pity quite a number of the Coalition signed the NNPT. Otherwise the problem could have been solved by a couple of Tridents in Pyongyang.