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The article surprisingly leaves out Russia altogether. In essence, Russia is the "father" of DPRK and its hard to think that it would sit around quite when DPRK
by sytelus 10y ago
The article surprisingly leaves out Russia altogether. In essence, Russia is the "father" of DPRK and its hard to think that it would sit around quite when DPRK is losing.
Another big factor is that DPRK would have no qualms in attacking civilian population in Seoul using missiles and artillery and in fact that's what they would focus on in order to terrorize and put RPK+US on defensive. A single bomb can do much more damage in Seoul then in Pyongyang. Air supremacy is irrelevant more or less as the distances are small and war on ground would be much more deciding factor. They can probably use chemical weapon warheads as well. All these things RPK+US won't be at liberty to do to DPRK but even if they could the DPRK would care less about its civilian population perishing en-mass.
Finally, atomic threat is very real one for RPK. If everything is going in the ditch, they can try to transport one single warhead in to a city using even ground vehicles (if missiles aren't working yet). On the other hand, using nukes on DPRK by US would have almost no impact on its leaders mindset.
- ng12 10y agoWell the USSR was the father of North Korea -- and the two had a falling out in the 1980's. North Korea was much closer to China for most of it's history.
- sytelus 10y agoRussia is the more friendly country than China according to DPRK's own assessment. Russia has very significant vested economic and political interests in DPRK remaining in place. China and Russia are the two major countries that do not technically participate in sanctions against DPRK (although they may agree on "paper") and which is why DPRK is able to survive at all. It would be hard to think of Russia just sitting quite when US is taking over one of the major sized country with tons of natural resources right on its border. See http://thediplomat.com/2017/02/russias-love-affair-with-north-korea/ http://thediplomat.com/2017/02/russias-love-affair-with-nort...
- ng12 10y agoYes, modern Russia has economic interest in NK (specifically providing energy in return for hard labor). But pretending Russia is the patron of North Korea is simply disingenuous. USSR/DPRK relations were broken after the USSR/China split, and then again after the USSR dissolved Russia cut all ties to NK. Do you have a source for USSR providing military equipment to NK? I'm skeptical.
- cthalupa 10y agoNK's nuclear arsenal is very heavily surveilled. They are very unlikely to be able to utilize any of their nuclear armament on SK's population centers. Russia also wants nothing to do with NK when it comes to military support. Not sure why you think they would support them in the current political climate.
- Meerax 10y agohttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4428384/amp/Putin-sends-troops-Russia-s-border-North-Korea.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4428384/amp/Putin-se...