Posted on 01/08/2016 5:00:57 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Rather difficult to read with the font issue. I promise to make a $100 contribution to FR if they finally fix this matter.
Not even close, would be a repeat of 1950.
When I went there over 20 years ago, one of the first orders of business was to get a briefing on the situation....and the situation was that both sides had thousands of rockets, and the border would instantly become a 30 mile wide band of complete destruction. And I distictly remember a strong emphasis on being ready for the norks to use nerve gas.
Without the 100% air superiority provided by the US of A, you are right. A rout in favor of the North.
Oldplayer
Yea, it sucks to be in our position. If we leave, it’s a repeat of 1950, although I’d expect the Norks to launch their attack in less than 364 days this time. So we stay and (hopefully) prevent a war...or else condemn 75 million people to genocide and slavery, plus put Japan in mortal danger.
Make that 50 million...same thing,though.
Conventially South Korea would destroy the North but take heavy losses in Seoul. The sad part is, Clinton, Bush, and now Hussein has let them nuke up, so there’s possibly a an exchange that the US would have to be involved with, B61’s on Pyongyang.
10 years ago it could’ve been much easier, now, it’ll be a real mess.
Easy win for the South. Offer every NORK soldier free meals and heat for a year in exchange for their rifle and ammo. Bonus of a Hyundai car for every arty tube they turn in.
Fairly even match IMO.
Both sides would obliterate each other without help from outside. The North will pump overwhelming boots on the ground and not care about heavy losses (a la the USSR against more advanced Germany)
If the South armed and trained its people like Switzerland however, I think they could win. Snipers around every corner would devastate the North’s advance
Answer to title question: Nope. Not as long as the country’s capital and industrial heart is within range of the North’s 250,000 artillery tubes, rails and launchers. Which it is. The minute they go back to war, Seoul goes up in sheets of fire - without needing a nuke to do the job at all. This is why there’s never been a permanent resolution to the Korean War, only an armistice - it’s a Mexican standoff.
Wouldn’t work. The South has been trying similar tactics for years. The Norks really are that brainwashed.
They will have to. Americans wont care in a majority, will choose libertarian isolationism.
The will of the people simply isn’t strong enough there; they have been lazy, wimpy, falling for socialist crap all these years and even blame us. They have the technology, but the problem is in their knees.
My unit was at a briefing on Christmas Eve by a 3 star general. He told us to expect 75% casualties within the first 24 hours.
” they have been lazy, wimpy”
South Koreans lazy?
You obviously dont know what youre talking about.
And Seoul is what,
32 miles south of said border!
South Korea has every modern conventional weapon system available, excepting nuclear weapons. The fact that North Korea has a larger army will not ensure that they would prevail; their ace in the hole is nuclear weapons. It is way past time that South Korea develop their own nuclear deterrant, if they don’t already have it.
Amazing isn’t. An entire country under that belief system.
Not work lazy but country protection and beating backsocialist tendencies lazy...I think you’d agree with that.
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