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[TexasChicken]

I would pin the maple leaf button I bought during the Mad Cow protests. Travel to Paju with my handmade North Korean Flag and dance in the streets as I welcome my new overseers!

T.C.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[rollo]

yes !! yes!! I understand that the north is not going to invade. All I am saying is that if it did come down with China's support, and no U.S. intervention South korea would not be that difficult to roll over. Remember it took 500,000 Americans about 300,000 Brits and commonwealth troops and a lot of Nato forces to stop the Chinese last time and that was a Chinese army not underpinned with a huge economy.

This is all political kabuki anyway. The sad part is the north has proven it has no compunction about killing. So some sort of sick bloody attack is likely, but not war.

the threats to nuke the U.s. are unusual and seem crazy.
its a poker game, a haggling session and China and the north want something. Its the geography, korea is in the middle and the bullies use it to play geo political games.

yeah the old maple leaf, sure some peasant from the North is not going to bayonet you because you have a clothe tree leaf pinned to your backpack! Hah!

if i were in charge i would beef up U.s. naval forces in the region, hit the Norths Nuke facilities with b-52 strikes and dare China to start. there are some thinkers in the u.S. military establishment who think it better to have it out with China now while we have a clear upper hand then wait till things are more even.

If the u.s. were to leave korea it would be because there has been huge changes in the geopolitical sphere. something massive.

[EZE]

[Steelrails]

[young_clinton]

[rollo]

China is currently building five new bridges into North Korea. something that the Norks are not real happy about but can not stop. Including two railroad bridges. Wonder why??

Seriously the So Korean army would not last against a North Army backed by China also the ethnic koreans in China who would feel compelled to join the Norths' army. Rememer China does not have to get into the fight. They just blockade claiming that they do not want outside powers interfering in an internal Korean dispute. No oil no arms for the South.

In Vietnam not an insurgency the U.s. South Vietmanese faced a professional army that got massive backing from China and the U.S.S.. China had 300,000 troops in north Vietnam. Guerilla tactics were often used but backed by a lot of military muscle.

Actually insurgencies usualy don't win against committed professional armies.
Max Boot has written an interesting book about this,

[Los Angeloser]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[rollo]

Oh yeah! i can see the U.S. being asked to leave and then still protecting South korea. No way that happens, unless Chinese troops get directly involved. South korea is a Chinese province within 60 days of u.s. troop withdrawal. Thats a fact. The South has nothing that could stop the north with Chinese help from rolling over it. Nothing.

This myth that South korea could stand up to the norks and China reminds me of the dangers of U.S. beef and mad cow. Remember the story Asians are more prone to mad cow disease , all that hooey.

To paraphrase Ho ho chi minh: its better to get a whiff of the U.s. latrine occasionally than to eat Chinese shit for a thousand years. The majority of South koreans understand this.