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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
I don't know, I think N. Korea would be a push over, just like Iraq was but without the insurgency afterwards. They have a million man military but they will fold quickly, just like the Iraqi army was feared but honestly, those soldiers didn't give a shit either way, they were just in it because it was one of the only jobs in the country.
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although they obviously couldn't fight a war since in terms of troops, numbers are irrelevant in modern warfare if they aren't a modern army, had you ever lived somewhere where people had been indoctrinated by many decades of propaganda, you would know that people don't just wake up one day and say "hey, i think i change my entire world view today".
all they know is that kim jong il was chosen by god to lead them, that the US is still at war with them and that all their problems are due to the west and the influence of the west.
you might look at their capital and see a city that's impossibly impoverished.. but to them, things are pretty good. that's all they know. they have no frame of reference to see things otherwise. they see clean city streets and a world without crime, without ghettos, without robberies and muggings, without drug addicts or any other social problems. they see a life that's pretty nice. one of parks, social events, concerts, museums etc.
bombing the piss out of them and then rolling across the border is only going to harden the population against the west and western influences it will take decades for attitudes to change and fade away, as it is with Russia for example.
thankfully, south korea is there as a comparison and they share the same language etc. and that would most likely speed up the assimilation process.... but it will most likely not happen quickly.
That being said.. fuck them. if they want to start a fight, threaten the world, threaten korea and japan and the US... then let them die.