Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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 Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Does North Korea even have the fuel to invade South Korea?
South Korea spends at least 3x what North Korea does on its military and has 2x the population.
What North Korea can destroy things as a threat and out of spite. They don't have the power nor the logistical capabilties to invade. Not even close.
You do know that North Korea is weaker now and South Korea is more powerful than it was in 1996.
This is how it was in 1996.
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Now officials are saying that North Korean forces have begun a slide from which they may not recover. Soldiers are so poorly fed that they are often unable to train. They spend much time harvesting crops or in other labor that detracts further from training, or are engaged in policing of the population. More soldiers patrol the streets of Pyongyang than a year ago.
Fuel is so short that tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks stand idle to rust. Airplane pilots, who must train like athletes, get only 20 to 30 flying hours a year, compared with 20 hours a month for American pilots. The recent grounding of a small North Korean submarine on the South Korean coast while it landed commandos was attributed to inadequate maintenance and incompetent sea-manship.
The North Koreans, who have two-thirds of their forces deployed near the 243-kilometer-long demilitarized zone that divides the peninsula, might launch a surprise attack with artillery and missiles that could reach the 48 kilometers to the South Korean capital. But South Korean and American forces are so well dug in that it would take North Korea three times as many troops to overrun them. |
http://www.iht.com/articles/1996/12/03/edhall.t.php
North Korea's artillery and its missiles are a problem. The rest of its military isn't. They still can destroy Seoul and rain down missiles and chemical weapons on the South but they don't have the military capablity to invade. |
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