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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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The Norks have some MIG-29s, which are capable, but no match against the Patriot missle.
I know this because I saw one while I was inverted...  |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:01 am Post subject: |
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| Paddycakes wrote: |
The Norks have some MIG-29s, which are capable, but no match against the Patriot missle.
I know this because I saw one while I was inverted... |
Can they afford to maintain their Mig-29s? They had 40 in the late 80's. I'm sure quite a few of them have been scrapped or crashed since then. |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| Paddycakes wrote: |
The Norks have some MIG-29s, which are capable, but no match against the Patriot missle.
I know this because I saw one while I was inverted... |
Did you "flip him the bird"?
"Where'd he go?" "Where'd WHO GO!?"
"I don't like you because you're dangerous."
"That's right, Ice Man. I am dangerous."  Classic. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't forget the dear leader is not interested in surviving, he will put every single bit of money and resource into making a strong military in the event of a war. Just because they turn off the lights at night time in NK does NOT mean they cannot power their many military factories. |
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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Well I'm not very far from N. Korea..and I just heard booming sounds that vibrated the entire school. I asked the staff and they said "oh the army is jsut practicing."
Oh and there are more tanks than usual..
Seriously..no joke. |
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Scouse Mouse
Joined: 07 Jan 2007
Location: Cloud #9
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| KYC wrote: |
Well I'm not very far from N. Korea..and I just heard booming sounds that vibrated the entire school. I asked the staff and they said "oh the army is jsut practicing."
Oh and there are more tanks than usual..
Seriously..no joke. |
I live near Dongducheon and commute to Uijeongbu. I have seen a lot more helicopters flying over the past few days, and today I saw a ton of tanks parked up. Fun times |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Scouse Mouse wrote: |
| KYC wrote: |
Well I'm not very far from N. Korea..and I just heard booming sounds that vibrated the entire school. I asked the staff and they said "oh the army is jsut practicing."
Oh and there are more tanks than usual..
Seriously..no joke. |
I live near Dongducheon and commute to Uijeongbu. I have seen a lot more helicopters flying over the past few days, and today I saw a ton of tanks parked up. Fun times |
I work in Pyeongchon and we had about forty trucks haul through Hagwon-ga in a convoy yesterday, all with armed soldiers on back. I could see really well from my window. They were all laughing and carrying on which was comforting. |
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rhinocharge64
Joined: 20 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| I live in Pyongyang and our GREAT leader is about to rock n roll. Watch out Georgie Busheee!! |
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Been There, Taught That
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Mungyeong: not a village, not yet a metroplex.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| I wonder if this will keep teachers away? |
I wonder if any, like me, are all the more fascinated about the prospect of being in country because of the controversy. A peninsula with a personality like two peanuts in a shell--one more nutty than the other, of course--is something of a magnet, I guess: some are attracted, some repelled.
But I don't see a lot of people being fooled that this is any more serious than anything that's happened in the past. In fact, the current NorKo (,Inc) rhetoric pales in comparison to some of the things the great leader and his great father have shouted into the air. |
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Been There, Taught That
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Mungyeong: not a village, not yet a metroplex.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:40 am Post subject: |
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| On the other hand, South orea's youth can't be any too reassured by the prospect of having to serve their time in the armed forces. |
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| The North blewup a Korean Air jet in the early 80s. Now that was a message. The South didn't attack back then so it is pretty safe to assume there will have to be some serious stuff go down for any war to occur here. If there was ever a time and a good reason to take the the North out it was then. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:06 am Post subject: |
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I'm going to give you guys an interesting example - make of it what you will.
One of my friends went to North Korea on a fact-finding mission for the DJ Gov.
They were brought by escort to a mountain base (apparently part military, part historic). When they approached the gate at the foot of the mountain they were stopped by an armed guard. No surprise there, the "handlers" simply said that this was an important diplomatic mission. The young soldier said he couldn't let them pass without confirmation from his CO. Everyone nodded and said "go ahead".
The young soldier said "ok, wait here, I'll be back". The team said "why don't you just call them?". Well, it turns out that they didn't have any radios and that he had to run up the mountain (and then back down) to find out if he could let them in.
They waited for an hour.
I think this is an interesting real life example of the DPRK's readiness. |
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NAVFC
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| Kimchi Cha Cha wrote: |
The initial conflict would be very short. But, The ongoing restoration of North Korea, bringing about stability, breaking down the mass ideology and paranoia would take several generations, if ever. Think of Iraq and Afghanistan combined but five times worse.
North Korea would be blasted into the never, never lands within 48 hours of the war beginning. They might inflict considerable damage on Seoul, Gyeonggi-do and Gangwon-do in the meantime however.
But, once foreign ground troops enter North Korea, you'll see guerilla fighting like never imagined before, in Pyongyang at least, right to the last one standing.
Then again, maybe they're just so hungry and disillusioned now the ordinary citizens would give up without too much fight. |
the variable would be whether or not the chinese get involved. |
So North Korea waits until after the Beijing Olympics for this? No way, shape or form is China backing NK with that at stake prior. If anything, they would warn against any kind of measures to that. |
In the event of a US Attack into the North, the CHinese are bound by a 1961 treaty to come to NK's aid. If we ever get into a war with North Korea, we wont be able to stop at Pyongyang. We will have to reach Beijing. |
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JungMin
Joined: 18 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| NAVFC wrote: |
| In the event of a US Attack into the North, the CHinese are bound by a 1961 treaty to come to NK's aid. If we ever get into a war with North Korea, we wont be able to stop at Pyongyang. We will have to reach Beijing. |
And you think its possible to do that?? Fight both N. Korea and China??? Hahahaha, negative.....I think just one would be hard enough, both of them?? Impossible. |
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NAVFC
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| JungMin wrote: |
| NAVFC wrote: |
| In the event of a US Attack into the North, the CHinese are bound by a 1961 treaty to come to NK's aid. If we ever get into a war with North Korea, we wont be able to stop at Pyongyang. We will have to reach Beijing. |
And you think its possible to do that?? Fight both N. Korea and China??? Hahahaha, negative.....I think just one would be hard enough, both of them?? Impossible. |
You do realzie how powerful the US military is right? Also that we have allies, right? And if the War on Terror /IRaq is over and done with when this hypothetical conflict comes it would help us even more. |
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