North Korea Mega Thread

[Mike Thick]

Copying this over from the other thread, relevant military asset articles, etc. at the bottom re ranges, arty, MLRS, etc.:

Here is a short primer on how it would play out https://qz.com/950488/nasty-brutish-and-short-what-the-next-korean-war-will-look-like/

Just the opening months, not counting an extended timeline if we have to put boots and face an insurgency.

The opening hours would see ~30,000 dead in Seoul. Most likely it would be more due to it being a city of 10 million people.

Their artillery doesn't have the range to saturate Seoul proper, so most of the casualties would occur in the northern suburbs, which is probably the reason their estimate is so low. How awful this would be probably depends on how much the US knows about the specific locations of the batteries, and how quickly they can take them out in a combat situation (as well as whether North Korea is acting willing to use WMD).

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/north-koreas-secret-strategy-war-america-go-underground-20525

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/bunkers-11162009134509.html

One of these articles states that they have MLRS in addition to conventional artillery so they could definitely hit all of Seoul (the range is 70km or so. Def within range of all of Seoul).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People%27s_Army_Ground_Force for a wiki on what the Ground Force has.

Here is a NK massed arty demo from early this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o3FTgL2L0g

Also this is good albeit a little old and it doesn't include the max ranges for the latest ICBMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WyrYBrOC1o

Perhaps my wording wasn't clear -- they most certainly can hit Seoul. However, the further from the DMZ you get, the lower the volume of fire, since the vast majority of their pieces are conventional tube artillery. On top of this, they have to retract the guns into their bunkers after every shot to protect from counterattacks, which will slow them down significantly. So, they aren't capable of flattening Seoul within hours, as some have claimed.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/could-north-korea-annihilate-seoul-its-artillery-20345

[Mike Thick]

Spark, North Korea has their defense system set up specifically to deter surgical strikes -- if we go, we have to go all the way. And that will be an extremely gruesome battle.

[Mike Thick]

South Koreans ‘more worried about Trump than North Korea’, says Gareth Evans

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70% of South Koreans polled by Pew Research said that US power and influence is a major threat to their country

I know you're a Socialist, but try to support our side. Thanks

Legitimate criticism of the American approach to this situation, which millions of people are going to live or die based on, is a far cry from supporting NK.