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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
Missiles aren't even needed...NK has embedded enormous artillery ?battalions? Within range of Seoul. You can bet they have chemical munitions as well.
There is no doubt that any open conflict would have a major spasm of carnage at the outset before those guns could be silenced.
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11,600 artillary pieces are tasked on Seoul alone, these range from long range mortars to portable guns to fixed place howitzers. They are segmented in administrative batteries of 6 to 8 scattered to hell and back based on range
So you have Roughly 1450 distinctive batteries arrayed all over the place.
some hardened some mobile, the tasking to take them out is the next to impossible task, especially if you wanted to strike before they were used.
Plus the one area that North Korea has spent lavish amounts of hard currency on since the first Desert Storm is in missile based air defenses and you can bet that the fight to get through that to the artillery would be costly.
On top of that NK has what is probably the largest stock pile of Chemical Weapons on the planet ranging from Mustard Gas to Sarin, and if their artillery starts getting chopped down they will use it on soft civilian targets and key road ways and logistics points.
Its an ugly dooms day scenario if the balloon ever goes up.