North Korea - how serious should we take them?
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They might not have enough fuel to invade properly, but they could flatten the DMZ with all the artillery they have pointed at it. They also have a huge force of what appears to be competent special forces, who have sneaked into SK before and caused chaos. Then there’s the chemical and biological weapons, and maybe working nukes too.
I can't see this escalating any further. The US won't blink first and NK MUST know that if they even dared attack America it would be the end of them. They are not idiots and clearly know what goes on outside they're borders. They know America could have blown up Kim Jong Un's single house by now if they really had the inclination.
I feel so sorry for the general NK population. They truly lost the 'where to be born' lottery.
Destroying the NK regime without killing millions of people who have suffered enough will be impossible I'd say. I highly doubt America would launch a nuclear strike against them (or anyone) these days.
I feel so sorry for the general NK population. They truly lost the 'where to be born' lottery.
Destroying the NK regime without killing millions of people who have suffered enough will be impossible I'd say. I highly doubt America would launch a nuclear strike against them (or anyone) these days.
The US could beat North Korea to a pulp. China isn't going to wade in like they did last time if NK start something. But the USA cannot possibly do what it did in Iraq - it'll be down to China to rebuild the country IMO.
The big issue is that Seoul is only 120 miles from the border. If they send a million troops over the border with the sole aim being to destroy Seoul and the surrounding area, with a view to collapsing the South Korean government, there's not a lot that anyone is going to be able to do to stop it.
The big issue is that Seoul is only 120 miles from the border. If they send a million troops over the border with the sole aim being to destroy Seoul and the surrounding area, with a view to collapsing the South Korean government, there's not a lot that anyone is going to be able to do to stop it.
Just a lot of bluster from NK.
If it did escalate, which it probably won't, it would be fought by proxies anyway - US facilitating SK strikes, convaluted and hard to prove Chinese and Russian support of NK. The net result is that the peninsula is reduced to rubble and a lot of wandering peasants which China would roll up into the empire quick smart.
If it did escalate, which it probably won't, it would be fought by proxies anyway - US facilitating SK strikes, convaluted and hard to prove Chinese and Russian support of NK. The net result is that the peninsula is reduced to rubble and a lot of wandering peasants which China would roll up into the empire quick smart.
monthefish said:
"North Korea - how serious should we take them?"
They release perfectly taken, posed pictures of their leader with his 'war generals' at his side, with a chart marked "U.S. mainland strike plan" pinned to the wall behind them.
Not very, is the answer.
One fears a clever enemy less than a desperate one.They release perfectly taken, posed pictures of their leader with his 'war generals' at his side, with a chart marked "U.S. mainland strike plan" pinned to the wall behind them.
Not very, is the answer.
I love how pretty much every last inch of NK is covered on Google earth in remarkably high resolution. I wonder if that is all part of the infowar to help stoke up their paranoia a bit?
http://goo.gl/maps/qJmWq
http://goo.gl/maps/qJmWq
einsign said:
Cyder said:
I like to think of NK as the crazy weird kid every school has who sits at the back of the room muttering to himself and has no friends.
I'm So RoneryBrite spark said:
Technically speaking no cease fire was signed at the end of the Korean war, so the two have been at war since the '50s.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff