“I wonder if we have contingency plans to destroy all the artillery pieces before they can do much damage to the capitol city?”
I’m sure we do - via air strikes and counter-battery fire. But with the amount of artillery that North Korea is supposed to have aimed at Seoul, there’s no chance we’ll be able to put an immediate dent in their firepower.
They’ll cause quite a high degree of civilian carnage before we can stop ‘em.
The absolute only way to do that would be with nukes. No joke! I was stationed there way back in the 90’s, we practiced “X-Attack” against simulated arty emplacements like those in NK in and around the mountains just North of the border. We would have killed many, many arty pieces and their crews on every sortie, but not nearly enough.
The only solution would be nukes used quickly. The “kill rate” in Seoul would have been in the 10’s of thousands per hour of innocent civilians with all the tube and rocket arty aimed at the city. The streets would have been rivers of blood before we or the US Army and ROK Army couter-battery made a dent. That is still the case today.