[exDemMom]

The major military impediments to the South Korean Army marching to the Yalu are that the roads in North Korea would be clogged by civilian refugees trying to get the hell out of North Korea, and ROKA logistics capabilities in the many mountains where all the bridges would be down.

Isn't the DMZ kind of an impediment to the South Korean Army marching anywhere? It's wide. It's riddled with land mines. Razor wire topped fences and guard shacks completely block the north from the south. North Koreans who want to go to South Korea have to escape through China.

[Thud]

The engineers of South Korea's army are as good as ours, which is saying a whole lot. The DMZ is a real close-in obstacle which initially won't be clogged with North Korean refugees going any place else they can get to, so its obstacles can be cleared, and good-enough roads made, unbelievably fast compared to MSM misconceptions based on 30 year-old conventional wisdom. It isn't 1985 any more.

The farther an obstacle is from the South Korean border, the more of an obstacle it will be to the South Korean armed forces. And North Korea really is one **** mountain after another.