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The biggest risk with North Korea is seeing the state of the country, and underestimating the regime itself.
by bdcravens 4y ago
The biggest risk with North Korea is seeing the state of the country, and underestimating the regime itself.
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoSpot on. I once heard the Kims described as multimillionaires with one of the largest armies in the world [1] and nukes. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...
- arp242 4y agoSize isn't everything when it comes to armies. See: Russia and Ukraine, USSR and the US in Afghanistan, Afghan army and Taliban, Boudica and the Romans, etc. Nuclear weapons and the fortified long-range artillery that can shell Seoul are the main point of concern, which are essentially a small-scale version of cold war era mutually assured destruction. The number of people in the army as such? I'm not so sure that's really something that's all that meaningful.