Another sign of the times . . . these things can start to take on a life of their own.
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from the article -
The attack on Yeongpyeong island presented South Koreans with pictures they hadn’t seen for half a century - civilians attacked and killed by their Northern neighbours; houses destroyed; people running from their homes.
The military says applications for its elite marine units have spiralled since the attacks.
But the army in general suffered a blow to its image: hampered by equipment failures, labelled weak and slow to respond.
Many here believe the army needs to get much tougher.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12015526
Should US troops actually get involved in Korea in a big way, we've got a military that has recent combat experience, and a modern and (more importantly) battle-tested approach to war-fighting.
Pretty much we (and to some extent the British) are the only nations that can make such a claim. Certainly the North Koreans cannot make it. But we can (and probably have been) train the South Koreans to use what we have learned.
Again assuming that sufficient equipment and men can survive the first barrage, I have to think that a North Koreans attempt to mount anything like a conventional war, will have results very similar to what happened to the British during the first few days of the Battle of the Somme in WWI.