| mai said: ^Yet another who do not know what he's talking about. May I remind you that DPRK steamrolled South Korea before US and UK forces landed in Pusan preimeter in 1950, and even that operation was successful due to superiority in tanks and artillery: 40 tanks (even though vastly superior to anything T-34-85 ;) ) and 800 plus artillery (DPRK) vs. 500 tanks and 1600 plus artillery (UN and South Korean forces) with support from aviation and naval military groups. I won't say that scenario will repeat itself even if imagine some ideal world where NATO won't get into conflict and only Korean forces from both sides will engage into battle, but even considering lack of proper tech from DPRK side the war will get bloody fast and victory (if they achieve one) will be pyrrhic for South Korea, if... if... they do really plan a full scale invasion completely on their own, which is, again, completely improbable scenario.
@Kantor Why didn't you compare GDP for that matter? Following massive success of Wii Bingo I'll get a sequel Bingo game for you ready =) |
In the 1950s, North Korea had support from both the Soviet Union and China, arguably two of the three most powerful countries in the world. Russia and China were much closer geographically to Korea, and would have a lot more to gain if Korea became Communist.
Russia and China are now somewhat moderate and on good terms with America, so I don't see that scenario repeating itself.
And as you said, it was due to superior technology on the part of DPRK, which they no longer have.
If Kim Jong-Il sent his entire army into South Korea, his army would be destroyed and his capital burned to rubble within a month. In an ideal world.
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