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Anyone who served in Korea and knew the score knows that the situation isn't as rosy as some like to think. There's no way that the North Koreans could actually win, but the actual fighting would cause tens of thousands of casualties. Neither we nor the ROK army are pushovers, but the effect of 10,000 hardened artillery sites firing several times a minute for hours or days on end would knock any miliary on its rear at first. Given the attention that the American troops and barracks would recieve (not like the North doesn't know where all of our stuff is), we would be looking at devastaing casualties.

Sure, we'd come back and stomp them like cockroaches. But their sucker punch is a daisy, and America needs to be ready to look at 20,000 casualties and not be suprised.

Well, as far as artillery goes, fixed gun positions are sitting ducks. This isn't WWII anymore. 10,000 guns means 10,000 guns destroyed. Counter-battery fire, computerized to triangulate the point of fire, and anti-artillery rockets will decimate them. Also, we will control the skies. Not only the US and ROK, but expect Japanese air forces (who use our stuff, with our training) to go to the limit to deep strike KPA artillery and troop masses. Ships can also fire computerized counter-battery fire against land guns as well.

As I said, you can't think WWII here. So much has changed due to electronics and computerization. Almost of all of the KPA guns are WWII style.

Although it might be a good idea to unmothball the Iowa, New Jersey and Missouri battleships and send them to the waters around the Korean pennisula. Goood counter-battery systems here. All it takes is a little radar and a fast processor. The 16 inch guns can do the rest.

Also, JSTARS and other special platforms will be able to pinpoint gun positions from the barrel mouths. JDAMS and mavericks can then be launched into them. Result: dead gun. I wouldn't want to be a commie artillery man after a few of these. The Japanese have lots of these weapons, so we don't have to split what we got going to Iraq.