Yes.  But the Mitt Romney wing of the Republican Party is ideologically distinct from, say, the Michelle Bachmann-voting faction, which is distinct from what the Republican Party used to be under men like Richard Nixon (who is probably most similar to Mr Obama politically).  

That 25% I mention is often called the “party base,” who as I mentioned have an disproportionate effect on the party agenda.  

It’s an odd effect of the American two-party system that ideologies of all stripes wind up lumped under broad party umbrellas that really don’t fully represent any one ideology.

The true far-right you speak of is less of a force than you might think (about 25% of the electorate), though sadly still outsized in their influence. And most importantly, they don’t have the keys to the missiles.

The Popular Mechanics article I posted addresses your comments.  Basically, the problem is that overstating the North Korean threat creates a cartoonish, caricatured image of what the threat actually *is*.   It’s counterproductive when trying to create a realistic assessment of the threat North Korea presents.

It’s akin to what U.S. policymakers did with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.  An ideologically-motivated overestimation of Soviet capabilities led to a horrifically expensive arms race that came close to killing us several times.

Similarly, refer to the War on Terror, where Iraq’s capabilities and intentions were vastly overstated in order to gin up support for an utterly unnecessary, destructive and expensive war.

If you want to reduce every discussion to the level of Humpty Dumpty in “Through The Looking Glass”, where words mean exactly what people choose them to mean, feel free to try, but don’t expect everyone to go along with it.

America’s far right is pretty bat-shit crazy too, and from what I gather they account for half your political representation. So watch those stones in that glass house of yours.

In short – your assertion is ridiculous panic-mongering.  

Artillery bombardment would definitely cause havoc and destruction and kill many people, but not anywhere close to the “millions” you suggest.  And it certainly wouldn’t accomplish that feat in “hours” or “minutes.”  That’s just asinine, and you should retract your comment on that basis alone.

Even massive firebombing of a city doesn’t kill millions – witness Tokyo’s firebombing in WW2.  Lots and lots of people died, but not “millions.”  

The only way you could kill millions in a short period of time in a city the size of Seoul would be with several nuclear bombs – and big ones, not the 10-kiloton devices NK is testing.