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[marlow]

If North Korea actually started bombarding Seoul, how serious would it be? It's not like Seoul doesn't have thousands of ready made bunkers in the form of subway stations and tunnels as well as underground parking garages.

Just wondering if the bombardment would be strong enough or fast enough to do anything serious before it was all brought to an end by American airpower.

I'm sure the attack would come during the middle of a work/school day, though, so that would **** things up. Maybe Koreans should do more defence drills.

[Captain Corea]

uh.. yeah. It'd be serious.

[Yesterday]

[Xuanzang]

I take it back. Nukes - Seoul would be the next Nagasaki or Hiroshima. The article said fierce battles with the DRPK planes? It`d probably be the same as with Saddam airforce. A good old fashion flogging.

[weatherman]

Well there is this write up I remembered reading some time ago.

http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/11/19/korean-peninsula-nuke-scenarios-seoul-strike-could-kill-125-million/

Not a pleasent thing to think about

[man_of_words]

They have a lot of fire power... more military weapons than you think but from what I understand it's all Soviet era weaponry and they have virtually no night time capabilities so they would probably start early in the morning and they would have to essentially win a one day offensive. When night falls it would be, for all practical purposes, a one way pummel. US and South Korea would demolish every military target possible and Kim Jon Il would no longer be in power.

[Cohiba]

Haha, well we wouldn't be nuked. They would nuke Japan first. We
would be the proud recipients of rocket and missile warheads full of
VX nerve gas. NK has freakin' tonnes of the stuff. This would result
in pretty close to 100% fatalities within about 50-100Km of the border.
Then, the NK army, emaciated as they are, would march unopposed
into a dead Korea. However, buildings and infrastructure would be
intact. They would then mop up any resistance south of Gyungi-Do.
Which wouldn't be much. I'm not sure what they would do with us
mighty whities. The global outrage would be such that killing us on
a piecemeal basis would pale in comparison. So don't expect the
dead members of your embassy to do to much. Happy New Year!

[blurgalurgalurga]

Good link there, weatherman...
My armchair general's two cents:
It's possible that the north wouldn't actually be able to hit central Seoul (or Japan) with a big nuke. They'd have to drop it from a plane, I think, as their nuclear devices aren't small enough to put on one of their missiles. Yet. Penetrating the air defense grid would likely fail.

I think.

Or, they could maybe trundle a fat boy or two across the border through one of their so-far undetected tunnels, which are unfortunately quite likely to exist.

However, even with nukes aside; they do have a lot of missles that could hit Seoul, and elsewhere on the penninsula. The ROK and US airforce could shoot down many. Others would hit stuff. The big question is, what kind of warheads would they be carrying? The possibility of chemical or biological attack should be acknowleged.

Artillery probably wouldn't be able to hit downtown, as far as I know. Ujeongbu however could be, I've heard.

They're pretty dug in up there too, so there's no magic air campaign that's going to take them out quickly. They're honeycombed into the mountains and have more tunnels than they do people to put in them. Choosing which underground complexes to hit would be, well, hit and miss.

So, in conclusion, my highly valuable advice to all concerned parties is, do not start a war with the North. And hey, the Wicked Kim of the North--I know you're reading this--don't attack the South. It'd be a lose, lose, lose proposition.

And sure, the North would get crushed eventually, maybe even relatively quickly, but the South would get horrifically smoked as well. Also China would be jumpy about the whole scene too, and who knows what could happen there.

And my advice to Lee Myung-Bak, who is also undoubtedly reading this: appeasement is painful, but relatively speaking, a much better option than being belicose. Nobody knows how crazy those guys up there really are.

[Cohiba]

Actually, I should have added that they would use artillery shells full
of VX for the shorter ranges of 40 or so kilometers to Seoul. Although
the longer range projectiles would be fired first so that the gas had
dissipated before contact with forward elements of resistance. The
initial thrust would be elite troops with chemical and biological equipment.
They could then then clear the millions of mines at the DMZ while the
US was still reacting to massive clouds of deadly VX.

[Xuanzang]

Dear Leader would be smart to put a nuke onto a ship and dock it in Busan. Then do his chemical warfare mumbo jumbo. Might as well take out the area Daddy could never reach in 1950.

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[Xuanzang]

Guess the only thing you`ll be drinking at Wolfhounds is your own blood if Kimmie is going to do chemical weapons.

[RACETRAITOR]

I have a hard time taking the North Korean military seriously. They'd probably mess it up somehow, like they did the time their sub washed up on the eastern shore.