Mexico versus North Korea - who would win in an all out war?

[the2real4mafol]

Kasz216 said:

the2real4mafol said:
Mexican outnumber North Koreans 5 to 1 and the drug cartels could act as guerillas. Guerillas nearly always beat an actual army or make it very hard for an army to win anyway. Both use outdated weapons anyway

I mean, not really the first part of that.  Guerilla armies only win because they live in the country being attacked.

If for example you were to sonly ook at the lives won/lost in vietnam it'd be hard to say vietnam won.

Guerilla fighters get their asses beat by regular armies, regularly.... consistantly and take a ton of damage.

The difference lies soley in the wills of the people, and that the winning country eventually finds it pointless to continue mowing down guerillas while losing a few of their own troops once everythings been knocked down into the dust.

 

Take that out of the equation and their needs to be a winner of one country taking over the other... and guerilla armies are worthless.

Vietnam lost millions of people thanks to America trying and failing to contain "communism". Even so it still beat America despite losing 30 times as many people as it held out long enough and was willing to sacrifice themselves to be independent, which is what they wanted in the 50's when fighting the French. 

Guerillas used their environment to the best and used the superior technology of the invader against the invader if given the chance. If anything we could say nationalism was what won Vietnam. The thing with that war is that people at home in America were gradually losing interest in it and going against it, especially among the young. The fact that the media were allowed to report on every gruesome detail made support for it less likely. 

All i know is America certainly didn't win in Vietnam and hasn't learnt a lesson from it since. 

Back to topic, Mexico would probably still beat North Korea. Unless China got involved on North Korea's side...