Would the US drop the bomb on North Korea?

Hypothetically, in engagement with North Korea during the Korean War, what circumstances would force the US under Truman to have used nuclear weapons against the North?

Would they have done it with the troop stalemate or if troops had been hypothetically engaged elsewhere and thus nuclear weapons were the only choice?
 

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Hypothetically, in engagement with North Korea during the Korean War, what circumstances would force the US under Truman to have used nuclear weapons against the North?

Would they have done it with the troop stalemate or if troops had been hypothetically engaged elsewhere and thus nuclear weapons were the only choice?
Until the PRC joined the conflict the US led UN coalition forces were winning, but there's no way Truman risks escalating the conflict to WWIII regardless of the circumstances.

You'd have to get rid of Truman from the decision making and replace him with MacArthur, he was in support of using the bomb on China.
 
If the Chinese ever struck as south as Taejeon, it's quite possible. But by then Chinese supply lines would be weakened enough that they would naturally be forced to move north by a conventional counterattack.
 
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