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Originally Posted by ruff
We've still got to deal with North Korea now. So there's another war for us. Probably a short one, but there will be plenty of casualties.
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North Korea has over a million men in uniform, and another seven million in reserve. That makes them one of the larger military forces in the world. At the same time their military is most likely unable to accomplish much.
However, the United States took on Iraq - twice - and utter destroyed them. If I remember correctly Iraq had the world's fourth largest army at the time. Iraq and Iran were at war for nearly ten years and ended in a stalemate, while the US went in the second time and removed their government and destroyed their military in under two months.
My guess is the United States would destroy them, and quickly. What the US did to Iraq was amazing, and this would be pretty much the same. If you read about the war itself, in the very first strike the US destroyed the Iraqi military communications entirely. When it comes to warfare, in my eyes there are two kinds of countries - Countries with amazing abilities, and everyone else. The US, China, and Russia have amazing technology. Maybe the UK and Germany, maybe France. Everyone else - not so much. They don't even understand how to prepare for war; They haven't really been at war in the past fifty years. Their technology is woefully behind the times; They just started launching missiles from submarines which is something the US, China, and Russia has been doing for decades.
NK would not see the first shots coming, and by then it will be too late.