I think the South Korea military would triumph over the North Korean military but NK would cause substantial civilian casualties with the large amount of artillery it has along the border.
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foodandart@lemmy.zip 5 days ago…More likely, NK invades SK …
Yeaaaahh. I don’t see that one happening. South Korea is on point with a military response that would be the end of North Korea. Have friends that are Korean and they say the military there does not fuck around. Even now, with the public perception of the boy bands and k-pop meaning the country’s gone soft… It’s window dressing, and why the Kim family has NOT launched an invasion.
F_State@midwest.social 5 days ago
foodandart@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Yeah, that’d be about the only way… then with the food rations going to NKs war effort, the northern populations would all-but starve… Which is happening more than it should in that country, already.
The Kim family can’t go extinct fast enough. What wretched people.
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I will say, with SK having the lowest birthrates in the world, and the general xenophobia and attitude towards immigration in eastern Asia, I’m expecting SK’s military readiness to degrade significantly over the next 10 years. NK outliving SK was never on my bingo card before, but… Something’s gotta change or it’s going to get bad over there.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Would the NK army have the food for a fight? Do they have the physical size and stamina for such a gambit? I’d be surprised if their army has the drive to give it their all in a battle.
Have been reading for at least 20 years about how the NK population has a decidedly shorter and smaller stature now, after decades of food scarcity.
Apparently as far back as the mid-00’s it affected the standards for conscription in the NK army. Not sure on that, but it would make sense.
It’s hard to know actually, there’s tons of propaganda on both sides, (and God knows, the Kim regime certainly won’t offer up actual demographic information of that nature which is truthful) but from the photos I’ve seen, the NK soldiers look awfully small compared to the SK soldiers.
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s just smaller hitboxes, bro.
But seriously, I think it would take some (probably modest) backing from another world power. Realistically China, maybe Russia, though China has been burned by NK before and Russia doesn’t have anything to give right now. I think the most likely scenario is that the regime sees a waning SK as a chance and goes for it, whether it’s a sane thing to do or not
foodandart@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Ooofff. Lets hope not. That would be horrific for the North Korean people and they’re already in such a shit situation. :(
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Past a certain point, it means you can’t carry gear, get exausted easily, can’t travel fsr, etc.
j4k3@piefed.world 5 days ago
I was mostly talking about China funding the second front by proxy. NK has already done the ramp up for production via the Russian invasion of Ukraine. NK now has units with combat experience, and Russian technology transfers, not to mentioned what China is capable of supplying directly. Samsung is the main objective. Seoul is within range of basically everything in the NK arsenal. Samsung is barely south of the city center in Suwon.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
AFAIK NK sent it’s troops to the ukraine front as a total expendable bullet wasters with no intention of seeing them back at all.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If two people fight with hand grenades in a boxing ring, nobody wins, only maybe somebody loses more.
The Kims might be a lot of things, like crazy, cruel or narcicist, but they are definitively not suicidal.