[RayChuang88]

But many still ask the question: can North Korea actually mount an invasion of South Korea? I have this feeling that all that military hardware we see on North Korean television are mostly show, and they may not even have enough ammunition to actually do an invasion.

I have this feeling if Kim Jong-un suddenly is off the scene permanently as leader, the North Korea government collapses in no time flat and within one year, the Korean peninsula is unified again--this time under South Korean control. And it could become a tremendous economic opportunity for the South Koreans as they now have a place to use their mighty industrial output to upgrade the infrastructure of the former North Korea.

[TigerLikesRooster]

they may not even have enough ammunition to actually do an invasion.

They gave up the idea of full-scale conventional war. That is why they are obsessed with strategic weapons. With nukes delivered by missiles, they think they can scare away U.S. because those missiles can hit U.S. bases in Japan and Guam, and U.S. mainland. Then they will intimidate S. Korea. They create military provocation and threaten to nuke S. Korea if S. Korea tries to retaliate. They attempt to offset their deficit in conventional arsenal with strategic weapons. Their goal is to intimidate S. Korea enough to become its satellite. Probably an implausible goal, but none the less the one they have been pursing for a long time.

Of course, they also see it as the only way to protect their regime.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

NK would likely destroy most of Seoul in the first day of the attack. They couldn't win a clear cut victory but SK would be set back several decades. Fatso has to know this.