neonleon
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Ok the longest ceasefire in military history is looking like it could come to a close. North versus South Korea. North Korea has threatened all out war if South Korea press ahead with sanctions. South Korea are rightly going to the UN, to call for sanctions for the alleged torpedoing of a navy boat - with 40 or so sailors killed in the wreckage. International and South Korean forensics indicate that North Korea was responsible.
South Korea have already called of all trade with the North.
This would make the conflicts of Afghanistan and Iraq look like a fight for a taxi between two pissheads on a saturday night. We are taking about one of the largest conventional armies in the world (north Korea) versus a high tech modern military of smaller numbers (South Korea), and of course the numerous American Army bases (its doubtful they would stay out of it they've been allies since the first war kicked off). Even with American assistance this is no gimmie. The last war was a stalemate after all.
Also its doubtful this would be a low casualty war. Kim jong Il is an absolute nutjob of the 1st degree, a brutal totalitarian despot. Seoul, a city far larger than London, with 12 million or so people is only twenty minutes to the demilitarised zone that separates north and south. Twenty minutes by tank that is.
To make it more interesting, the north are widely reported to have a nuclear capability even if they dont yet have the ballistics systems to deliver them. They could still drop a bomb by aeroplane on Seoul killing most of the 12 million in a stroke. Or just drive the bomb into Seoul and set it off.
Time for America to rethink its policy on assassination of political figures? Really this is mostly down to one man. Most Koreans want unification. The people in the North definitely so, most of them are starving and all are poor. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the south who also didn't want unification.
But with the political situation looking intransigent, nuclear weapons and huge amounts of conventional weapons on either side (we aren't talking a machine gun welded to a pick up like Saddam had), hundreds of tanks, MIGS, artillery and soldiers - its the largest military build up of two sides in the world; and combined with a psycho leader widely rumoured to be dying of some long term illness and intent on going out in a violent blaze of glory - war and civilian deaths look incredibly likely.
Scary times.
I hope the people of Korea reach the path of unification peacefully and the tyrants like King Jong Il are dealt with appropriately. One mans madness shouldn't lead to the deaths of millions.
(good luck to teppic)
South Korea have already called of all trade with the North.
This would make the conflicts of Afghanistan and Iraq look like a fight for a taxi between two pissheads on a saturday night. We are taking about one of the largest conventional armies in the world (north Korea) versus a high tech modern military of smaller numbers (South Korea), and of course the numerous American Army bases (its doubtful they would stay out of it they've been allies since the first war kicked off). Even with American assistance this is no gimmie. The last war was a stalemate after all.
Also its doubtful this would be a low casualty war. Kim jong Il is an absolute nutjob of the 1st degree, a brutal totalitarian despot. Seoul, a city far larger than London, with 12 million or so people is only twenty minutes to the demilitarised zone that separates north and south. Twenty minutes by tank that is.
To make it more interesting, the north are widely reported to have a nuclear capability even if they dont yet have the ballistics systems to deliver them. They could still drop a bomb by aeroplane on Seoul killing most of the 12 million in a stroke. Or just drive the bomb into Seoul and set it off.
Time for America to rethink its policy on assassination of political figures? Really this is mostly down to one man. Most Koreans want unification. The people in the North definitely so, most of them are starving and all are poor. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the south who also didn't want unification.
But with the political situation looking intransigent, nuclear weapons and huge amounts of conventional weapons on either side (we aren't talking a machine gun welded to a pick up like Saddam had), hundreds of tanks, MIGS, artillery and soldiers - its the largest military build up of two sides in the world; and combined with a psycho leader widely rumoured to be dying of some long term illness and intent on going out in a violent blaze of glory - war and civilian deaths look incredibly likely.
Scary times.
I hope the people of Korea reach the path of unification peacefully and the tyrants like King Jong Il are dealt with appropriately. One mans madness shouldn't lead to the deaths of millions.
(good luck to teppic)
