Threat from the DPRK (North Korea)

[Kinser79]

(09-21-2017, 03:55 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(09-19-2017, 04:18 PM)Mikebert Wrote:

(09-19-2017, 02:07 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(09-19-2017, 02:03 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Within a decade. In the meantime Kim Jong-Un could be overthrown in a military coup. He could do something really stupid that causes the People's Liberation Army to liberate northern Korea. He could choke on some food.

None of which the senior Kim has done in the past 70 years.  That he'll invade the South has a much higher likelihood.

I doubt it.

https://southfront.org/north-korea-vs-so...look-like/

Little mobility, obsolete technology in its military aircraft, naval vessels,  and tanks, poor infrastructure for fuel transmission... that sounds less ready for war than Iraq in 1991.

Something else to consider: South Korea has great numbers of private automobiles. Any automobile can be fashioned into a car bomb, a menace to military units.

Just don't strike first. North Korea will need China to rescue it.

President Xi Jinping is unlikely to rescue the DPRK.  The PRC has already signed on to Trump's latest rounds of economic sanctions which essentially amounts to asset freezes on countries, companies and other entities that do business with the DPRK. 

Xi understanding where China's rice comes from signed on, seriously you cannot underestimate how powerful a motivator only having two or three weeks of grain reserves can be for a country with 1 billion people in it.  As such Rocket Man needs to rethink how strongly Big Brother China will back up little Korea.