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They have a better chance of getting away with this than anyone else has had in recent past. - The North Korean military is a serious conventional force. - Th
by jeswin 14y ago
They have a better chance of getting away with this than anyone else has had in recent past.
- The North Korean military is a serious conventional force.
- Their army is considered to be highly motivated, given the years of indoctrination and virtually no access to a real news channel. They will probably fight to death.
- They have an over-sized, capable special ops team.
- Nukes. It may or may not work well, but the rest of the world can't take this chance. We (rest of the world) are also just guessing how many they have.
- Seoul is within range of artillery fire. Also will be the first thing to get flattened. About 24 million people live in and around it.
- I doubt if their strategic targets will be sitting ducks for aerial bombing. Given that war and military is the only thing that country thinks about.
So yeah, the truth is that the rest of the world is just very scared. South Korean defense personnel have been repeated targeted in recent years; and nothing could be done. :(
- weavejester 14y agoIt takes a lot of artillery to flattern a city, and the DPRK doesn't have that many guns that can reach that far, or many artillery positions within 55km of Seoul. While they also probably have nuclear weapons, it's unlikely they have any means of delivering them yet. The DPRK could potentially cause a lot of damage to civilians, but they cannot win an offensive war. The question is whether they're crazy enough to try.