Is going to war with North Korea a good idea?

North Korea continues to test their missiles and their nuclear bombs while making claims that it could nuke the U.S. at any moment, which has caused a lot of countries to become alarmed. With tensions increasing between North Korea and the U.S., the outbreak of war is becoming more of a possibility. I personally do not believe that North Korea poses a real threat to the U.S. since none of the operational missiles North Korea has in its arsenal can reach the U.S. or its territories. Although North Korea is developing the Taepodong-2 and the KN-08 which could reach the continental U.S. none of them have had successful launches.  However, Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia nonproliferation program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies believes that within five years North Korea will have intermediate to long range missiles which mean that within five years they will be able to pose a direct threat to the U.S. The current administration appears to want a direct confrontation with North Korea but this idea is a poor idea at best. The U.S. military is currently undermanned and stretched throughout the world and with a conflict of this magnitude, these issues would only be intensified. Also, the possibility of a quick victory is not possible without of the use of nuclear weapons and the chances of winning are bleak. According to CNN, North Korea has more than 1.2 million active duty soldiers and 7.7 million in reserve and 70 percent are near the 48 parallel. In addition, North Korea has the largest artillery in the world with most of it pointing towards Seoul a city of 25.6 million residents and the capital of South Korea. According to the National Interest, a war game predicted that Seoul could be, "hit by over half-a-million shells in under an hour." Another simulation in 2005 by Atlantic predicted that over 100,000 residents of Seoul would be killed in the first few days from the outbreak of war. Simulations, statistics, and the current state of the U.S. military demonstrate that attacking North Korea is a bad idea. I hope the current administration is fully informed and understands the gravity of the situation and decides to de-escalate. 

Commentary on "Federal government should defund Planned Parenthood which offers abortion service."

I chose the Blog "From an Immigrant's Perspective" because I wanted to understands the perspective of someone with a different background who most likely has a different point of view than I do. In the article," Federal government should defund Planned Parenthood which offers abortion service." he states that he endorses Donald Trump's idea to fund Planned Parenthood as long as it stops offering abortion services. His first argument for supporting Trump's idea is because he believes that Planned Parenthood is violating federal laws by using federal funds to provide abortion services. The problem with this argument is that abortions are not illegal in the U.S., therefore, the use of funds to provide abortion services are not violating any federal or local laws. Another issue with that argument is that the federal government does not fund Planned Parenthood. They are just like any other private organization whose vast majority of clients use Medicaid and Title X to pay for their services.

His second argument is that he believes that women should not have easy access to abortion services because it encourage young people to be irresponsible and the other life should be taken into consideration. I understand his point of view but he nor I know the number of people that abuse the abortion services. For all, we know a very small number of women abuse it and it would be unfair to take it away from millions of women that need it. Just like anything else, a very few will always abuse it while the vast majority won't just like the laws. He points out that the life of the fetus should be taken into consideration which I agree with him however since the woman is the one carrying the baby and in my opinion, the baby is part of her body and no one should tell her what to do with her body.