[wiggen]

I would hope South Korea wouldn’t need help in taking on the North (short of nukes obviously). The interesting thing to watch will be Obamas response regarding the troops we still have there. They moved further from the border a year (was it 2?) ago. I doubt he pulls them immediately but does he do so in a month or two?

[calex59]

Eventually the South would win a conventional war, however, at the start of one the North’s artillery, of which they have thousands, would devastate the South.

[Netz]

It is obvious that NK is testing the WEAK West once again. It is probing with a bayonet and so far they have met mush. First NK sank a SK naval vessel, now this shelling, what's next? Troops pouring over the 38th parallel? When will Barry act? Once the world sees that Barry has the jitters, you're going to see bad things happening all over the planet, actually it has already started - just wait for the coup d’etat in Lebanon by Hizbollah/Iran...