@Cmdr:
knp,
I dont believe America would have to TAKE Korea, in your scenario. You are free to NCM warships into hostile zones without risk of Kamikazee attacks so long as there are no enemy warships present.
So if Japan had no units in SZ 6, but had 6 Kamikazees left, America could waltz in with 3 battleships during NCM and nothing could be done about it.
Yeah, you are right. USA could lose the land battle for Korea and still move in the warships to SZ6 in the NCM with no kamikaze attacks. I worded that a bit wrong, but the point I was making was that as long as there are no Japanese naval units in SZ6, then the USA could move warships into SZ6 in the NCM and Japan could not use it’s kamikaze. The battle for Korea has no influence one way or the other in this example.