November 2017 - President Donald Trump makes a “surprise” visit the to the DMZ. Promises that any future nuclear provocations by “Little Rocket Man Kim” will be met with a response “like the world has never seen. Believe me!”
December 2017 - Chairman Kim Jong Un conducts a successful 100 kiloton thermonuclear bomb test in the Pacific Ocean 600 miles northwest of Guam.
January 2018 - President Donald Trump orders a “decapitation strike”. The US conducts a massive conventional missile and bombing campaign intended to eliminate North Korea’s missile and artillery capability as well as kill the North Korean leadership. The strike is only marginally successful in degrading the North Korean forces and the leadership is not killed, but President Donald Trump tweets its success, “Little Rocket Man goes boom!”
Chairman Kim Jong Un determines his only option is a ‘use it or lose it’ response. Within ten minutes, the 15,000 remaining North Korean artillery guns open up on US and South Korean forces across the DMZ, as well as civilian targets in Seoul and Incheon, with both conventional and chemical warheads. Hundreds of missiles start to rain down on the cities. 100,000 people including over 10,000 US troops die in the first fifteen minutes of the barrage, and one half a million people are severely injured. Civil society breaks down and chaos reigns as people try to flee the cities. One half hour later five 100 kiloton nuclear armed missiles strike and detonate among the fleeing masses. Two million people are vaporized instantly and another six million receive lethal radiation exposure. In addition, a 100 kiloton nuclear missile strikes Tokyo killing one million Japanese citizens and irradiating three million.
President Donald Trump orders a massive nuclear attack against North Korean military and strategic assets. One hour later twenty ten megaton thermonuclear missiles strike killing a half million North Korean troops outright and four million civilians as well as the entire North Korean leadership. Over five million receive lethal doses of radiation including a half million civilians across the border in China.
Mysteriously, within two hours three 10 kiloton nuclear explosions, believed to have been smuggled in shipping containers, detonate in the harbors of New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles killing two million and radiating fifteen million US citizens.
...and then it gets worse, much much worse.