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Originally Posted by Wookie
One thing I'm curious about, who would be allies against an aggressive N.Korea?
Japan? China? S.Korea? India? USA? Great Britain?
Does N.Korea stand a chance with all those people having a major concern?
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You can add in Canada. Canada would attack an aggressive N. Korea.
That being said... North Korea has a huge military for it's relative small size and destitution. In 2001 they reportedly had: 700,000 troops, 8,000 artillery systems, and 2,000 tanks ready for deployment with some other figures being:
100,000 strong special forces
1 million total active soliders
6 million man reserve force
12000 total artillery pieces
1700 planes
800 ships (with the largest submarine fleet in the world)
Kim Jong Il isn't playing... if he wants a war... he has the goods to fight one. I hope it doesn't happen, it will make Iraq look like a day at Disneyland.
http://www.rense.com/general37/nkorr.htm (Pretty scary paper... if this paper is correct, North Korea is much better prepared than most people realize. Also says in this article that North Korea had 100 nuclear missles in the year 2000.)