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North Korea warned the United States that it would respond to “reckless acts of aggression” after a carrier battle group led by the 97,000-ton USS Carl Vinson was deployed to the Korean peninsula. The aircraft carrier is being escorted by a guided-missile cruiser and two destroyers equipped with Aegis technology capable of shooting down any future North Korean test missiles.
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Is North Korea’s nuclear program going to be next? That’s the question many experts are asking themselves after American cruise missiles struck a Syrian airbase last week. If the U.S. does carry out a pre-emptive strike, Pyongyang is likely to launch a substantial military retaliation against the south. If that nightmare does one day come to pass, how well equipped is the South Korean military to repel an offensive from the North?
The North Korean military has substianally more active (and reserve) troops than the South, though large numbers of its soldiers are underpaid and malnourished. The North also has outdated equipment and its airforce is known to still use 1950 Korean War-era MIG-15 fighters for training purposes. The South Korean military on the other hand boasts state of the art technology including cutting-edge tanks, warplanes and attack helicopters. However, Seoul is only 35 miles from the DMZ and due to North’s superority in artillery, it’s highly likely that the South Korean capital would suffer massive damage in a war. Even if the South repelled an invasion, success would come with substantial military and civilian casualties.
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If they blockade NK’s few sources of income you can be sure to trigger a military response….a real one, not 50 artillery shells landing in a field, or a missile aimed at the ocean.
I have wondered if maybe their missiles are a diversion. Their nukes are supposed to be the little 1k sized ones. They could hit Seoul with one of those in an artillery shell, couldn’t they?
I’m thinking, why even fuck with NK? What’s the percentage anyway?
A good chunk of those North Korean aircraft are left over from the last war. Of course a MiG 15 is still a badass plane if you have no weapons left and have burned off too much energy to escape. Not that such is every likely to happen and even if it did, the MiG 15 lacks radar so it probably wouldn’t find you anyway.
As close together as they are, and as large as these opposing forces are, any serious conflict there will be nothing short of nightmarish.
“War is Hell”
I don’t think anyone doubts the US/SK could flatten North Korea and destroy most of their military from the air in a couple days. Thats not the question. The question is why should we? We can hardly aford another costly military operation. This would still end up as another quagmire. Like Cheney assuring us Iraq would cost no more than $50-100 billion, this too would cost many multiples of the govt’s estimates. Plus, it would cost American lives, and hundreds of thousands of Korean lives. I dare say we’ve killed enough people. It also risks a confrontation with China, which is an entirely different matter. As much as they seem to be growing tired of that fat kids antics, they aren’t going to accept the US turning the entire Korean peninsula into an American proxy govt, with American bases that much closer to their border. Team America, World Police needs to back off.
Go research North Korea and their potential oil and gas deposits, particularly those in the disputed marine border regions.
The big problem I see is those damn diesel submarines. They can sit around and wait. Very quiet like.
Their one big vulnerability is snorkeling to recharge their batteries. Our guys will blow them to hell when that happens. They could get lucky like when those Chinese subs that popped up in the middle of some of our battle groups.
The war between America and North Korea never ended.They have been in a state of war since 1955.This is the real problem.
North Koreans must be insane to risk war with… South Koreans & the Americans… must insane to risk war with North Koreans. To paraphrase Sen. Everett Dirksen: “A little war here, a little war there; sooner or later it all adds up to one huge M’F’ing World War”. The world is insane and that looks like a clear Sign of the Times to flee to the mountains!