Your Opinion: America should use 'poison pill' tactic - Jefferson City News Tribune

Mike Barnhill

Ashland

Dear Editor:

In the 1980s world of finance, a term was invented by a lawyer named Martin Lipton. The term was called a “poison pill” and was identified as a tactic public companies used to thwart “take over” attempts to purchase by finance raiders. Take overs were made uninviting by making it prohibitively expensive or less desirable.

May I suggest America use a “poison pill” tactic when exploring a settlement to the final end of the Korean War started in 1950 and only a truce not an end was signed in 1953? How to achieve this possibility follows.

Let’s suggest we give clearance to South Korean leaders to only obtain nuclear weapons of the lowest yield grade available. A description of low yield involves the B61-12, a bomb of great versatility in that it’s deliverable by missile silo, cruise missile, bomber or submarine. Accurate to within 30 meters, meaning less need for a more powerful explosion. In comparison to the B83, America’s largest nuclear bomb, yielding 1.2 megatons (1,200 kilotons). The B61-12 yields just 50 kilotons (50,000 tons of TNT) compared to 20,000 tons of TNT for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

Given the options for delivery, North Korea would have great difficulty destroying all nuclear capabilities if they invaded South Korea. Just four nuclear missile submarines alone, two on each side of the Korean peninsula, may be enough to deter any attack by the North. Seoul, Korea is currently within range of hundreds of artillery pieces and would mean suicide if the South invaded the North. The existence of both countries could then be achieved in a nuclear stand-off without American troop involvement.

This nuclear option for the South has its faults, however, and one is the question of “nuclear proliferation.” Will Japan also want nuclear weapons to defend itself and possibly even Australia? The idea of a unified Korea with democracy is a pipe dream as China would never allow the unified country to feel or act free. The same result as Hong Kong would be in the making. So perhaps, a nuclear stand-off may be the only option available for continued survivability in Korea.

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