North Korea has nukes.
South Korea doesn’t.
Obama has said he would not retaliate even if a US city were nuked, so S. Korea is screwed.
Even if the arms were equal, it’s sort of like being challenged to a game of “chicken” by a guy driving an old beat up Yugo with a smoking engine and four flat tires and you are driving a brand new shiny high performance Porsche.
I don’t have the exact details on equipment and weapons systems, but North Korea’s military is mostly junk. Have you ever noticed that when they have military parades, there’s no tanks or aircraft? That’s because all the ones they have are embarrassingly outdated.
The main reason for NK’s nuclear program is that their conventional forces would not last long in a war. They lack the fuel, spare parts, and industrial capacity to sustain a prolonged conflict. But they could still cause a heck of a lot of damage in the opening weeks of a war.
...in many ways it's a little Abrams, better suited to the terrain, road network and urban fighting likely to occur in a conflict on the peninsula. The norks are still fielding primarily T-55s and T-62s. There are similar disparities in aircraft (i.e. F-5s and F-16s vs. Mig 17s and 19s although I do believe they have a few 29s as well.
NK troops are cannon fodder. SK has the capacity to send stragetically targeted missles to an arm lengths list of placed that will render NK up a creek. Most of the NK people will not be siding with NK during a prolonged conflict. A LOT of people will die but I’d side with SK when they get it on.
anyone remember the Iraq vs US comparison? On paper Iraq had a formidable force, but in practice the military didn’t exist
I saw a picture (on FR I think) of a US soldier and an SK soldier ecorting a NK soldier back across the border. I believe he had gotten lost. The US soldier looked to be about 6’ 3”, about 200 pounds, and the perfect model of a soldier. The SK guy was significantly smaller, but still impressive in appearance. The NK soldier looked about the same size as my 11 year old, except my 11 year old is in better physical condition.
the Norks showing the world what an impotent spineless loser the boy really is... the only surprise to me is that it took this long for them to do it
Just as it was in the middle of the last century: If conflict breaks out on the Korean penninsula, NK is not the country you need to be worried about.
If NK invades, SK should just step aside and let them rush in complete with banners, parades, welcome home music, buffet tables full of food, big smiles, slaps on the back ....THE WORKS!
The NK army would be totally confused leaving the NK leadership powerless.
Time to go clean house. Time to cut the head off of some snakes ! Time to do a very quiet invasion of Pyongyang and take out all gov’t officials at the top.
Modern warfare is depends on three things: 1. logistics; 2. logistics; and, 3. logistics. North Korea has food for maybe a month of fighting, if that.
Once the North Koreans get sufficiehntly hungry, they’ll die or surrender.