North Korea news: US public back nuclear strike (Image: GETTY)
Compiled by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in collaboration with YouGov, the opinion poll surveyed that over a third of the US public supported a nuclear strike on the state. Moreover, despite knowing the nuclear strike would kill one million people, US public opinion remained unchanged between a conventional missile attack and a nuclear one. One respondent accompanied his vote by saying that a strike was the best way to “end North Korea”.
Another, who was also in favour of the death penalty insisted that the strike was the best chance of “eliminating the North Koreans”.
The report also stated that there was little change between support for a conventional and nuclear strike, with 33 percent supporting the latter.
The surveyors also said that there was no significant change in opinion when the number of casualties is increased from 15,000 to 1.1 million.
The report concluded: “There is a large hawkish minority lurks within the US public; over a third of respondents approve of a US preventive strike across the scenarios and appear insensitive to informational
