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[itaewonguy]

North Korea operates 40,000 special forces troops, including the 11th or "Storm" Corps whose mission is to infiltrate South Korea and create havoc in case of war. It also has around 10,000 naval special forces and around 5,000 air force soldiers who can cross the border if a war breaks out.

The figures were revealed in a speech by former South Korean commander of special operations Kim Yun-suk to fellow veterans at the War Memorial in Seoul.

Kim said the Storm Corps, which has been trained to stir up confusion behind enemy lines, is composed of four light infantry, seven airborne and three sniper brigades. And the 4th Corps special forces, stationed on the Ongjin Peninsula close to South Korea's Baeknyeong Islands in the West Sea, consists of 600 scout troops, 600 naval reconnaissance soldiers and around 1,800 naval forces.

The North also operates a large amphibious landing force in the region similar to South Korea's Marines. Totaling 180,000 troops, North Korea has the largest number of special ops forces in the world. The 11th Corps accounts for 22 percent with 40,000 special forces troops, and 120,000 light infantry brigades make up 66 percent of the special forces. The reconnaissance brigade, which has been fingered in the sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan, accounts for around 6 percent of special forces, and the Navy and Air Force each have around 5,000 crack troops, which make up 3 percent.

"Ten thousand North Korean special forces are capable of infiltrating simultaneously through underground tunnels or aboard 260 hovercraft or submarines, while 175 AN-2 transport planes and 310 helicopters can transport another 10,000 troops," Kim said.

The former officer said the South needs to come up with measures to deal with the so-called asymmetric threat by creating a powerful special forces brigade, operating a special military branch that handles North Korea's irregular forces and boosting the number of anti-terrorism units and training

We might end up winning but we will be victorious from a mountain of rubble! South Korea as we know it will be no more!
the stone age comes to mind!

[nautilus]

In the event of an invasion surely the US would just drop a nuke onto Pyongyang and be done with it?

[BoholDiver]

I am calling this propaganda. I doubt their skills and numbers.

[itaewonguy]

[nautilus]

Somehow I don't view the north koreans as dangerous after their dismal 7-0 defeat to portugal.

[pkang0202]

Put a bunch of North Koreans in South Korean uniforms, how is anyone supposed to know if they are the enemy?

[The Hammer]

We have Rambo!

[shinramyun]

[Waluigi]

[vaticanhotline]

No, but China does. Have you read about the geopolitics of the peninsula at all?

[Waluigi]

[geldedgoat]

I highly doubt that North Korea has even operational nuclear weapons, let alone the ability to launch them much farther than halfway down the peninsula. What they do have worth worrying about is an arsenal of chemical weapons, but again, the range is most likely fairly limited. It would be unfortunate for those of us who still live in or around Seoul at the time of this theoretical outbreak of war, but I trust in the superior technology of the combined might of the US, South Korea, and allies to knock out most silos and in-flight missiles before even a small percentage make it over the DMZ.

I live just outside of Seoul, and the only thing that worries me about the prospect of war is the inevitable plummeting of the value of the won.

[sharkey]

NK could never fight against such superior air powers, SK, USA and Japan all have the best fighters, attack jets and AWAX like equipment around.

[young_clinton]

I hope the North Koreans have plenty of tunnels to run all those troops through, well ...... actually not really, because at Normandy the allies had a huge well armed armada and it was a close fight with the Germans on the shore. The Germans wanted to invade Britian but the German generals decided it couldn't be done for many reasons. Even though the North Koreans have landing craft it would be a Turkey shoot, and as far as crossing the river just south of the DMZ or the DMZ itself lots of luck. The big problem is the North Korean artillery with thier biological weapons and the few nukes that they have although I don't know how they would deliver them.

I wonder though if China would be dumb enough to enter the war on the side of the North Koreans. During the Korean war the american weapons were not that much more advanced than the Chinese weapons, and the Chinese had huge numbers. Towards the end of the war the Chinese were being pushed back by General Ridgeway who was nasty, aggressive and blood thirsty. Anyhow the point is lots of luck for the Chinese too, IF they get involved in any war. They have 1st age weapons, Nato has 3rd and 4th age weapons. I don't think China's planes are even as advanced as the US F-4 Phantom.

Could Nato completely defeat and occupy all of China? I doubt it. Besides who would want to risk the Chinese nukes. But they could lose Hong Kong, Macau and Tibet and even more territory than that, after thier armies get decimated. **** they shouldn't have those territories anyway. I don't think Hong Kong or a lot of other people in China want to be run by Beijing anyway. If you lived in those territories who would you want to be governed by, the British or the Chinese Politburo?

Anyhow with my feelings about North Korea and China that's my two cents.

[young_clinton]