Jacoby wrote:
I think Kim's million man army would probably look a lot like Saddam's million man army, I'm not convinced they would just lay down their weapons faced with superior American and SK troops. The x-factor is the nukes of course but also the fact that North Korea has enough artillery pointed at Seoul to flatten it. It's really not a war we should want to fight, it would be short but potentially extremely bloody. Just wait them out since I do not believe that Kim Jong-Un will be able win his game of thrones forever, he'll be overthrown eventually but the question is would the person replacing him be any better?
It's an interesting situation as Kim was western educated, he saw democracy in action first hand in Switzerland, he's given a little lip service to the market reforms that China has made but he seems like he's struggling to maintain control thus the high profile executions.
I disagree. I think North Korea has thought out how to fight the next war since 1953 and conquer South Korea and they have been training for it. They are not going to make the same mistakes of fighting for a stalemate The added use of nuclear weapons in their arsenal has made it more terrifying. If North Korea uses nuclear weapons on Seoul the entire peninsula would be on nuclear fire. The United States would have no choice to respond with tactical nuclear weapons. The war would easily spread through Eastern Asia. I think that he is well in control by executing members of his family and the his military staff. Saddam Hussein did this for decades by executing members of his military and party members.
07 Apr 2016, 11:43 pm
