| Kantor said: Everyone citing size of military as a reason why North Korea is a powerful nation: Russia in the First World War. Russia had, by quite a long way, the largest army in the world. 15 million people fought in the Russian army from 1914-1917. And what happened? They were destroyed by the far smaller armies of Germany and Austro-Hungary. Size counts for nothing. The North Korean army, like the Tsarist Russian army, is poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly supplied. EDIT: Also, in 2003 (last valid data), North Korean military expenditure was estimated at $5 billion. South Korean was $21 billion. South Korea has half as many active personnel in the army. So, spending per army member is eight times as high in South Korea as in the "DPR". |
Seriously. I remember a comparison on CNN on training between the Marines and the Afghani rebels, the Marines were so much more efficient. It was like they kill 10 plus for every one Marine killed, or some insane crap like that.
I also remember this one news story where some U.S. helicopter crashed, and 3 soldiers survived and were surrounded by a lot of enemies and either managed to kill them all and survive or died while killing them all.
