911paramedic
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I normally don't agree with you, but I do.
I don't think this particular action will make for an all out war. Obama is too much of a puss to do anything. It seems like China wants to stay away form this as well. Iran will probably pipe in with some empty threats sooner or later.
Once we get a president with some stones in office, then NK will have to be worried.
Thread got me curious and I had to look it up on Korean Marines in Vietnam -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Korea_Marine_Corps
Pretty badass, probably itching for some real action.
Maybe when South Korea was poor but now they're a highly developed economy and with that the nutrition is much better (average height of males went from 5'6" 30 years ago to nearly 5'10" now). Every South Korean male must serve a mandatory of 2 years in the military which gives them some basic fight training, handle weaponry, exercise and discipline.
From my Korean friends, because of the increase in height, they send the taller, better-looking soldiers to patrol the DMZ in order to intimidate the North Korean soldiers.
That still won't intimidate like the 1000 NK soldiers marching and foot stomping in unison. Scary as hell.
South Korea needs to begin evacuating the population near the border to the north. Once everyone is out of N.K.'s artillery range, S.K. with the US should launch a large shock and awe military campaign against the north. Our superior technology should flatten the N.K. military within a few days. Reunite Korea and get rid of the insane communist in charge in the north, enough screwing around.
From my Korean friends, because of the increase in height, they send the taller, better-looking soldiers to patrol the DMZ in order to intimidate the North Korean soldiers.
guys, we have to stand by our north korean allies: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/24/palin-north-korea/
You realize Seoul is completely in range of artillery fire. Of course we should have mapped out the hardened bunkers already so if our shock and awe hits them bunkers successfully, we could knock out a good deal of their artillery that could create massive damage.
With that said, military build up is usually pretty apparent to both sides. As backwards as NK is, they probably could gather enough intel, especially with China and Russia backing them up.
Can that handle 10,000 North Korean Cavalry?![]()
But she can see Russia from her house!!:whiste:
The "old war pig" in me wants to lay waste to all of North Korea...all the way to the Chinese border...Hang Kim Jong Il by his testicles and let the people have their way with him, hand Junior by his neck and let the crows have their way with him...and let the Korean people sort the rest out themselves...BUT, the common sense person that controls the war pig KNOWS that, not only would it be a bad idea to try this, (for a variety of reasons) but also because it just ain't-a-gonna happen.
One of the major lessons we SHOULD have learned from Vietnam is to let the people of a divided nation work it out themselves. Whether it goes the way WE want is immaterial.
WE aren't going to force the NKs to adopt the SK-style of democracy. Not gonna happen, although, I DO believe that if the NK regime were to fall, the entire nation would become a "free and democratic nation" on its own, much like Germany did after the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of East Germany.
I don't see the Red Chinese wanting this to happen, and I believe they'll back their NK puppets if this escalates into a major shooting war.
While I agree with you on most points, do you think we should have stayed out of Korea in the first place? Without UN involvement I think South Korea would've fallen and the one Korea would be communist. That's not that big a deal though; what would really bother me is the North Korea personality cult running all of Korea instead of just the North. I just don't think Kim Jung Il having control of the entire peninsula could be any better than what we have now.
Think? NK had SK pushed all the way down to the South Eastern tip of the peninsula until the UN and MacArthur pulled a two pronged attack to save their asses.
I'm not really up to date on military history, so I didn't want to be so bold as to claim, "I know."
aaahhh!!! The motherland!!!hookay, so. ... Aind thay waire liek "daiym. Who dee aiff is shooteeng us?"
