I agree with you that US and South Korean should NEVER sign the peace treat until North Korea makes some major progresses on denuclearization and Moon administration has been repeatedly saying that since he took the office. I am not sure where is the disconnection?
Even tho you don't believe nuclear war could happen on Korean soil, but a lot of Korean experts, ex-CIA directors, and US policy makers believe there are about 20% to 30% chance that we might have 1-day nuclear war on Korean peninsular due to miss calculation/judgement and I believe their expert opinions.
There is also a new book that describes one case of 1-day nuclear Korean war due to miss-judgement.
https://www.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Against-ebook/dp/B079VDR6HM
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If anyone is doing some holiday shopping and wants to "school some special snowflakes in the not-so-liberal art of war"
Predator is the first one, more to come
https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Escape-Tarkov-Alexander-Kontorovich-ebook/dp/B07B9HZYCT
Tarkov Site (Buying from their site will get you the in-game content that comes with)
This is quite a wild fan fic you have wrote.
It's like I'm reading an excerpt from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077X12YNG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
I give you Invasion, a little-known British thriller that relies on the bizarre premise that Turkey would be absorbed by ISIS, that it would nevertheless still be able to join the EU, and that ISIS would be able to raise twenty-two armoured divisions to invade Europe with nobody noticing. They somehow manage to get as far as the UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/INVASION-Military-Thriller-Invasion-Book-ebook/dp/B004I438XA
While this was released in 2013, it appears to be a re-write of an older novel published in 2006 and setting its action in 2019 (which obviously did not age poorly at all), with the framing device of Britain being under a caliphate:
They used to sell three different ones on their site, but those are now gone. I think all of them were written in Russian, but this is the first one that has been translated to English.
Interested to know this too. The first one is on Amazon but the 2nd and 3rd aren’t.
There's actually a novel called The 2020 Commission about a hypothetical nuclear exchange between the US and North Korea and one of the plot points is that a North Korean nuke misses DC and lands on Arlington. Read it while I was still living in Clarendon.
Hey I know this is an old post but I found out you can buy the kindle version of the first book on Amazon. Listed as the same author and everything. Second and third aren't on there though..
Read The White Plague by Frank Herbert. It's sci-fi but interesting.
Oh man, this book looks amazing. It appears to be a thriller written by a machine learning bot fed Fox News stories.
Kinda reminds me of the storytelling in Escape from Tarkov. If you play the game then you should read the book based in that universe, Predator: Escape from Tarkov.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B9HZYCT?ref=KC\_GS\_GB\_US
It actually is really good and helps explain the lore of the scavs and traders in a realistic way, even quests too!
It'll be interesting to read more on the No-Pats closer to launch.
Have a look at the opening of Samuel Delany's <em>Time Considered as a Helix</em>. He's pushing a lot of information at his reader, yet he still manages to give you a pretty good idea what sort of person is his main character, and you also feel he's on your side.
For a longer work, have a look at Terry Hayes' technothriller <em>I am Pilgrim</em>. You can read the opening in the Amazon "Look Inside" preview, or library it for a longer read. Different genre, very different style, slower burn, but it's a wonderful book to study. For one thing, the pacing is outstanding, in the sense there are essentially no boring parts; the author is able to manipulate narrative tension through the slower expository sections and keep you up reading in the wee hours. But in regards to the bond between the writer and the reader, with Hayes it quickly develops as a bond of trust. You come to care about the MC, and there's the feeling the MC cares about the reader, even though he deliberately withholds information.
With good writing, you feel you're in the hands of a master craftsperson, so you relax and let the story carry you away.
> Like Wtf, imagine a nuclear war breaks out but orange dumpling is out golfing..
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel
by Jeffrey Lewis
Shit goes down while they're at Mar-a-lago. It discusses the actual setup they use there (not all the people that travel with the president can stay at maralago) and the implications of not having everyone immediately accessible.
https://www.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Against-ebook/dp/B079VDR6HM
(Disclaimer: As a novel, it was mediocre. But its loaded to the gills with actual information [with citations] and I actually learned a bunch.)
I've noticed a lot of these people view the world as just one big hierarchy where there has to be someone holding power over another at all times. When they hear someone say they don't like the country and want to make it better for minorities, women, LGBT people, etc. they think it means those people want to take control of the top spot on the hierarchy, which means straight white cis dudes with old fashioned values get kicked to the bottom.
From personal experience on a smaller scale, I see this a lot in the pro writing community. There's always complaining that publishers wanting diverse casts and diverse authors means straight white guys have no chance to tell their stories, but this unironic right wing power fantasy got published by an actual company and made money. POC and LGBT stories/authors being picked up more often doesn't mean there aren't any opportunities for everyone else. It just means they lost their unfair advantage now that all stories are being told. That's a pretty good metaphor for the liberal view of equality I guess.
There's a really good book by Jeffrey Lewis who works the arms control and nuclear nonproliferation industry... it's written as an after action report detailing how a tweet by Trump leads to a nuclear exchange with North Korea... given the personalities of Trump and Kim Jong Un it is disturbingly plausible.
https://www.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Against-ebook/dp/B079VDR6HM
Probably not the same book, but really interesting scifi take on a cataclysmic astronomical event i loved - basically two black holes revolving around each other headed to earth, but couldn't really be seen, only their gravitational fields could be measured: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013TOAL3E/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o01_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Read this free novel for some ideas:
This book postulates ISIS agents have thoroughly penetrated Europe and invasion of London is about to begin.
This is the premise of Daniel Suarez's book Influx Check it out. It's good, but not as good as Daemon and Freedom, those are great.
<em>I am Pilgrim</em> by Terry Hayes.
<em>Tigerman</em> by Nick Harkaway.