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> Makes a war against them even more difficult. North Korea could be armed with sticks and stones and war against them would be just as difficult since they a
by elfexec 7y ago
> Makes a war against them even more difficult.
North Korea could be armed with sticks and stones and war against them would be just as difficult since they are backed by china explicitly and russia implicitly. If china and russia said north korea is on their own, we'd bomb them back to the stone age within a few hours. As long as north korea is back by china and russia, they are pretty much off limits.
- xxxtentachyon 7y agoSeoul's proximity to the border and the NK artillery based there complicates things more than you suggest: https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/how-north-korea-would-retaliate https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/how-north-korea-would...
- clSTophEjUdRanu 7y agoI have a hunch that this gives the poorly trained and poorly fed NK troops with poorly maintained equipment a bit too much credit. I have a hunch this underestimates the people of Seoul.
- StanislavPetrov 7y agoYour hunch would be wrong. North Korea has tens of thousands of short range artillery pieces, rockets and self-propelled missiles on the border 35 miles from Seoul. They are low-tech and would very reliably reduce Seoul and millions of people to rubble within minutes of any attack on North Korea with absolutely no way to stop them. This would occur even if North Korea was somehow unable to use any of their dozens of nuclear weapons and if all of their subs, planes and ballistic missiles failed.