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August 28th, 2005   Post 1
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Is north korea really a threat to the US? Just because they have nuclear weapons, at this time, they dont have anything that can get them far enough to cause us any trouble. Let me know what you think
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August 28th, 2005   Post 2
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North Korea has a huge standing army, it has medium range ballistic missiles, and is developing a nuclear capability. Now it can it hit Japan with these missiles, and all of South Korea, it would be one thing if the country North Korea did not have a basket case in charge, but they do. So do you think that this makes for a stable out look in this area.
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August 29th, 2005   Post 3
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The whole situation is a stalemate, really - it is a cold war scenario.

North Korean ground forces, approx 1 million soldiers, are composed of nearly 170 divisions and brigades. From their current locations these forces can attack with minimal preparations. A surprise attack on South Korea is possible at any time without a prior redeployment of its units.

A real threat to the region but do they dare pull the trigger?
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September 2nd, 2005   Post 4
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There are also over 30,000 US troops in SK. I think if they were jeopardized, the amount of NK troops would have to be quickly neutralized.
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September 2nd, 2005   Post 5
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Thats quite a feat. A 1 million man army is not small threat. I think they pose a greater threat politcally rather than militarily.
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September 4th, 2005   Post 6
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It is quite amazing facts that most of the NK artillery pieces, mostly 155 mm but also some quantities of 255mm are within reach of Seoul from their strategic outposts. This means that if the NK are about to invade the south the entire region of Seoul would be under intense artillery fire making devastating effect on the political situation.

Another interesting fact is that even though the NK have 1 million men their equipment is sadly outdated - most armor units are from the late 1950 and 1960s - though some units are dedicated with newer russian and chineese equipment.
 
September 5th, 2005   Post 7
WARmachine88
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I just hope the Korea problem can be solved in peace. A war in Korea now will be 100 times worse than last time 50 years ago.
 
September 5th, 2005   Post 8
Spartacus
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I hope so too but;
"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
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September 5th, 2005   Post 9
OORAH
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this is true, we will never see the end of war, not in our lifetimes, not in anyones lifetimes, i believe.


 
September 5th, 2005   Post 10
WARmachine88
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actually we may see a glimpse of hope in our life time that major powers may stop fighting each other.

not many people have noticed that throughout history major powers tend to fight among each other every 50 years or so, but things seem to be better in 20th and 21st century.

I just hope the old korea problem does not trigger another war between big powers and starts to cycle of world war again.