Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Shinawi]

[falco]

[Steelrails]

[falco]

No. I base it on a your anal-retentive postings on this forum.

Have a nice day.

[Steelrails]

So it's not based on what is being said but how it is being said.

Sorry, when it comes to analyzing military capability you have to focus on what someone says, not how they say it. The capabilities of armies and the likelihood of things occurring don't change on how nicely people describe things. It is based on fact and science.

[rollo]

You are right. israel would want to make sure that South korea has the bomb because it would be in their interest to see a nuclear Asia.

taiwan which is Chinese ethnics would fight against their brother.

malaysia which has a huge chinese poulation is going to back South korea instead of China.

Actually I think the unification would come from with in.

the same way Japan took over korea , with the help of South Koreans.

South korea could not win a nuclear exchange with China!! i truly believe that.
South koreas navy would be powerless against a combined Chinese and north korean navy.

Northkorean forces would be upgraded by the Chinese, no doubt about that. So lets take the 50year old equipment off the table. there is a reason they are building those bridges into the North.

korea gives them control on north Asia, threatens japan and also changes the strategic balance with Russia.

Geography never changes, strategies are built around geopraphy.

South korea would roll over for their Chinese master. History; korea has either been dominated protected by China or japan. there is no long history of korea being entirely independent. Either under Japanese or Chinese control, usually with the complaiance of the korean people.

I will take history and geography and you can have the Royal Thai navy sweeping the chinese fleet from the seas.

[Steelrails]

rollo. I don't doubt that the Chinese military is superior and could steamroll Korea. The question is, do they have to? Would they want to? The United States could roll into the Bahamas, but why should it? The gains don't correlate to the costs.

If North Korea falls, United Korea would be a natural trading partner and would grow closer.

How's this though? A rollo-esqe scenario, but one that has a touch more plausibility. China plays the diplomatic game of playing off Korea and Japan against each other. China can't invade every country left and right. Why not start building alliances and playing rivals off against each other?

[falco]

[Steelrails]

[falco]

[NohopeSeriously]

Even if North Korea would completely annihilate South Korea and won a quality victory, there's a bigger question than any military conflict? How would North Korea clean up the mess afterwards when China, Russia, and the USA will pretty much murder Pyongyang's elite class in the most brutal way.

BTW, do people really forget about what they learned in history class?

[Steelrails]

[geldedgoat]

[falco]

[Steelrails]

The bone of contention was the hoopla over sending "Nuclear-Capable" B-52s. Not to mention the utter amateurishness of the assumption that the North Koreans were going to be like "Holy Crap! They have B-52s. I didn't know about that! I didn't expect the U.S. to back Korea even though they were staging war games together, but after that B-52 flew overhead, its back to the drawing board". I'm sure that threw a real monkey wrench in their plans as they were already staging war games.

Now, publicizing it is certainly part of the message.

Again, here's how it works- DoD bigwig has to give a press conference. In everyone of these they choose a system to highlight as "demonstrating our commitment", no matter what who the ally is. Usually there's some connection to Pentagon funding with the system involved. They then throw out some generic statement like "Our deployment of system Y, highlights our commitment to continued partnership with country X". Anyone who follows military affairs and foreign policy knows how generic that statement is and how it gets thrown out every two weeks.

Those that get all hysterical about it just come across as rank amateurs. It's like in sports if some manager says "We have an interest in player X on team Y", rank amateurs will scream how they're about to trade for that player. Where as real fans know that's just part of the whole game and rumor mill and doesn't mean much.