Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Nehkara
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.) |
The article is propaganda for the N. Koreans, I'd take everything in there with a grain of salt. The Director Centre for Korean Affairs leads me to be suspicious, especially considering that in 2000, the Koreans were still threatening the US and Japan that they would continue their development program unless they received help... they got that help and the program was supposedly suspended. Before getting the help the US and Japan toured Korean facilities to ensure that they didn't yet have nuclear capabilities. Certainly they have a bunch of crazies willing to fight, (when you're that poor you have nothing to lose,) but they're seriously overstating their readiness. Can you face a country with 10,000 nuclear weapons and really be prepared?
However, they're also losing the support of their citizens. After the border partially opened to the South, North Koreans realized just how impoverished they really were. They know who's doing it to them, and they don't support their government like they did before. They realize they're facing a death sentence.