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Old 04-01-2013, 08:44 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre View Post
People massively underestimate how strong NKs military actually is though - That they have a million man army isn't exactly some silly irrelevant point.
They barely have enough money to maintain their army while it's doing nothing. I'm dubious that they would have enough money to keep it going for very long in wartime.

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The other problem is that NK is actually very difficult to wage war against - much like Russia, the geography there confers a huge defending advantage - Its been tried before to wage war against NK and the losses were far larger than army strength and technology alone should have indicated.
Actually, once the American army invaded Inchon the NK army got creamed all the way to the end of the country. It was the hordes of Chinese that poured over the Yalu River that saved them.
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