“So, by necessity, they’re starting to look seriously at the contingencies, which are unpleasant.”
Not just unpleasant, but unfathomable to this generation. We would be looking at an evacuation and destruction of a major/modern metropolitan area that hasn’t been seen since WWII.
Let’s hope it doesn’t get that far . . .
Not just unpleasant, but unfathomable to this generation. We would be looking at an evacuation and destruction of a major/modern metropolitan area that hasn’t been seen since WWII. Quite right.
The thing is .... military planners have probably already written off that part of Korea.
If there's an invasion, it probably follows the same routes from 1950, through Seoul and down the eastern coast:
Given the mountains in the center and eastern portion of Korea, the plan would probably be to channelize them and cut them off at the mountains to the east, and possibly along the Han river in Seoul itself.