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[Bo Peabody]

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[Bo Peabody]

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[Hater Depot]

I would drastically shorten your time frame. 30 days between the beginning of aerial bombardment and the deployment of ground forces across the DMZ? That seems far, far too long to me.

I would launch first-strikes on troop bases, suspected nuclear sites, and any missiles or artillery capable of reaching Seoul or Japan. This needs to be done immediately. I would destroy any place known as a favorite spot of Kim Jong-il. While this is going on I would harden our defenses on the DMZ to impregnabilty; there are likely still a lot of tunnels we haven't found, and the ones we have found in the past were large enough to pour thousands of troops an hour into the South Korean countryside.

If we wipe out their ability to launch missiles or artillery quickly enough, and if we contain their ability to send troops in through the tunnels, we have options. It strikes me as highly possible that soldiers will refuse to fight, officers will disobey orders, and offers of defection and surrender will pour in from individual commanding officers; civilians, especially in the less-favored areas of the northeast, will revolt or attempt to flee across the Chinese border. If that happens the war will be over in less than a month.

If it doesn't happen, then we have to invade. We'll have the luxury of softening them up with our overwhelming advantage in the air. Meanwhile they'll be burning up the few resources of gasoline, food, and clothing they have -- their fighter pilots are only able to train a few days a year because they lack enough fuel. And considering the lack of good roads and infrastructure, they won't be moving their troops around to where we can't find them. A land invasion would be a slaughter.

As with Iraq and Afghanistan, of course, the true challenge is not the war but the peace.

I'm making some optimistic assumptions here: that China will allow hundreds of thousands of refugees to cross its border; that the North either doesn't have nukes or that we would take out its launch capability quickly enough; that we won't need troops more than 60 ~ 70 km below the DMZ; and that we would be able to wipe out their capability to level Seoul with conventional weapons before they knew what was happening.

[YoungLi]

Hater Depot... well I'm impressed. Were you in the military? If not, maybe you should think about that.

[DirtySanchez]

I'd fly over North Korea in a high altitude bomber and drop billions of flyers that read:

South Korean Kimchi is da bomb!!!

Then I'd sit back and watch the country tear itself to pieces.