Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Rteacher]

I don't think that we (especially those of us within range of their heavy artillery) can afford to let them strike first and get away with killing millions before being thwarted.

Moreover, they would likely prove much more difficult to defeat than Iraq in both conventional and guerilla warfare.

I think that preemptive nuclear strikes may be the best horrible choice.

This article is a little dated, but it makes a convincing case about how formidable a military threat they indeed do pose...
http://frontlineamerica.blogspot.com/2006/11/north-korea-military-capabilities.html

Here's another, more terse one ...
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/kn-korea-north/mil-military

According to this article, as far back as March, 2000, "Gen. Thomas A Schwartz, the US commander in Korea at the time, testified at a US congressional hearing that 'North Korea is the country most likely to involve the United States in a large-scale war'."
http://www.rense.com/general37/nkorr.htm

[Ya-ta Boy]

The report that KJI could turn over power to his youngest son brought smiles to my inside source. He says that the kid has no political or military experience at all and would very likely lose control very quickly--and that that would be good for the South.

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[Tokki1]