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To: Steel Wolf
**Meanwhile, the jewel of the south, Seoul, is a 40 mile walk from the border**

While the South Korean Army may not be the Israeli Defence Force it is not the same untrained Army of the late 1940's.

As the Israeli-Arab conflects show, larger forces does not always overwhelm smaller forces to cover short distances.

With every potental bottleneck for those invading forces identified and targeted since the last war I wouldn't bet money either way.

What worries me most is the possibility that South Korea with a much larger economy and population than North Korea has become over dependent on America to protect them in case of invasion. If China was to stay out of it there is no reason the South Koreans couldn't handle North Korea.
108 posted on 12/27/2002 7:49:56 PM PST by Swiss
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To: Swiss
The main concern is not so much that the North conquers the South, but that they ruin it. This threat is their leverage. Their conventional forces simply don't provide them the ability to overwhelm the prosperous, populous South. They can, however, set them back fifty years, and turn it into a nightmarish, war torn wasteland.

The nukes won't let them conquer the South, either. They are purely for negotiating with us.

109 posted on 12/27/2002 7:57:10 PM PST by Steel Wolf
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