Oh, by bad. Ukraine had 4th largest and 3rd most capable military but it was some 20 years ago.
On the other hand Iraq had 4th largest military and what?
Just like Saddam, the Norks mostly armed with outdated stuff and their training is probably WWII style.
Wouldn’t be a problem for Russia and ROK.
BTW, I’ve seen polls and it seems like relations between Russia and South Korea are at all times high. South Koreans seems to have the most positive perception of Russia of most countries including Russian allies.
I think they are considering a free travel between countries without visas the ways Russians agreed with Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Israel and Turkey.
For Russians South Korea might be a valuable potential ally to contain Red China, for ROK Russia might be a source of cheap gas to make economy more competitive.
SK has a fairly strong economy and good technology. America has slipped seriously in their view because of bam bam.
The NK military is big but not all that well trained or equipped. Their special forces are pretty good because they do real world stuff against SK fairly often. They have a LOT of artillery and their main target is well within range. They also have significant chemical weapons that they can deploy out to about 800km if I recall correctly.