I certainly will the_13th_redneck, thank you. I'm not worried over anything like that, I was just speculating mostly as to why we may not have heard from him.

NThe bad thing is South Korea is failing into the threats. They are moving their capitol in 2014 100 miles South of Seoul. However North Korea knows that they may get in and win the first battle but the minute America gets time to relise what is goin on they are screwed. Plus South Korea has 4 million reserves so they ain't exactly going to be out numbered. Plus North kore has a large Military,yeah, the problem is all of that stuff is left over from the earlier USSR days. However South Korea has advanced thier military greatly.

As mentioned before the major NK threat is possibly Nukes and Special Forces.
The problem is, we don't know if they really have Nukes, and how many of their "Special Forces" are actually the hard core elite troops that we've become familiar with over the years.
The other thing is will.
A lot of South Koreans (however not me) have been somewhat brainwashed into believing that the North Koreans like us. This may play a crucial role in the very early stages of the conflict as it will maximize the shock value of a North Korean blitz attack if such a thing ever comes.

But back to the topic: No there is not going to be a war over this. Worse things have happened and war still didn't break out into full scale.

Originally Posted by the_13th_redneck

As mentioned before the major NK threat is possibly Nukes and Special Forces.
The problem is, we don't know if they really have Nukes, and how many of their "Special Forces" are actually the hard core elite troops that we've become familiar with over the years.
The other thing is will.
A lot of South Koreans (however not me) have been somewhat brainwashed into believing that the North Koreans like us. This may play a crucial role in the very early stages of the conflict as it will maximize the shock value of a North Korean blitz attack if such a thing ever comes.

Good to hear what it is like over there. I am part Korean from my dad's side of the family. Isn't there some kind of reuinifiaction movement over there?

Reunification movements have been around since the split.
Yes nowadays the public is crazy about unification, while not thinking through the costs, the consequences and the process of unification. Without thinking of the economic, psychological factors.
It's hugely popular, probably hit the highest during Kim Dae-jung's term... though nowadays it seems quite a few people are becoming discouraged.
It's a long, complicated story.
I would love to see a united Korea. However, I think after almost 60 years of seperation, this may prove to be a disaster for both sides.

Btw. I will have to warn you my views are not really mainstream. They are conservative and it seems it's hard to come by conservatives in my age group (I am 23).

Originally Posted by the_13th_redneck

Reunification movements have been around since the split.
Yes nowadays the public is crazy about unification, while not thinking through the costs, the consequences and the process of unification. Without thinking of the economic, psychological factors.
It's hugely popular, probably hit the highest during Kim Dae-jung's term... though nowadays it seems quite a few people are becoming discouraged.
It's a long, complicated story.
I would love to see a united Korea. However, I think after almost 60 years of seperation, this may prove to be a disaster for both sides.

Btw. I will have to warn you my views are not really mainstream. They are conservative and it seems it's hard to come by conservatives in my age group (I am 23).

Well same thing goes for the US. LOL I am conservitive but I am 14. Those hardcore gun loving conservitives got to me too early lol :P

Most likely if NK invades they will do it on all fronts and then try to pour in troops through any holes created. Their main objective would of course be Seoul.

edit: too bad there is no korean flag here

NK has 1mil troops sitting on the boarder, if he wanted to invade SK he could at any time he wanted. The 30k US troops sitting there would be a minor speed bump. Like everyone else said, Kim Jung Il is full of . All he wants is the attention of the world community so he can get international aid. We give it to him to keep his mouth shut. He can talk all the trash he wants though. He knows that if he invaded SK he'd have about 48hrs before the US got their forces in position to put him back in his place.

This nuke thing is a joke too. He's a dictator and has power over NK. Does anyone think he'd be willing to give up his power by getting wiped out by the US? Why do you think Saddam was so adament about not having any WMDs? He didn't want to lose his power. He knew if Iraq collapsed he'd be a nobody (like he is now). I'm sure Kim Jung Il watches CNN and saw what was going on.

The problem with shoving so many peopel on the border like that is that these border areas are actually classified as "no mans land." Meaning this is where everyone's artillery can hit.
There will be a huge artillery duel which is why South Korea invested so much resources into counter battery systems. They track tube launches and direct fire onto them.

But we gotta stay on topic so: The answer is, no. There is no significantly higher threat of a full scale war breaking out.