North Korea

[Monsta®]

bunch of idoits! or the end of the world!

[tomtom]

perhaps idiots with a nuclear capability - scares the pants off me!

[mercuryg]

North Korea has, at best, a handful of nuclear weapons of dubious capability. The army is starving and poorly disciplined, mainly conscripted and hardly committed. The weaponry it holds is outdated and would be no threat to any opposing force. Any threat of major catastrophe in the region is exaggerated. It's just the North throwing a few toys at the South to remind them they are there.

[Monsta®]

North Korea has, at best, a handful of nuclear weapons of dubious capability. The army is starving and poorly disciplined, mainly conscripted and hardly committed. The weaponry it holds is outdated and would be no threat to any opposing force. Any threat of major catastrophe in the region is exaggerated. It's just the North throwing a few toys at the South to remind them they are there.

thats what they said about afghanistan and look at the super powers that couldn't defeat a coulpe of hundred afgans with ak47's and toyota hi aces!!

and any nuclear weapon is a threat how ever dubious it may be and don't forget china is a partial backer of north korea!!!!

and also think about what happened with vietnam!!

[mercuryg]

thats what they said about afghanistan and look at the super powers that couldn't defeat a coulpe of hundred afgans with ak47's and toyota hi aces!!

and any nuclear weapon is a threat how ever dubious it may be and don't forget china is a partial backer of north korea!!!!

and also think about what happened with vietnam!!

In 2009 North Korea tested a nuclear bomb. The blast was measured at somwehere between two and five kilotons. The original US atomic bomb tests, in the middle part of the last century, measured 12 kilotons and above. The simple deduction, and the belief by military experts with help from intelligence, throws up two possibilities: either the blast was, like a previous North Korea detonation, a conventional bomb simulated to appear as an atomic explosion, or the bomb did not work. The nuclear threat from NK is massively over exaggerated in the press - it doesn't take much investigation to discover such. The army suffers from desertion as there is no food; the arms they have are outdated and poorly maintained; their is little in the way of training, no discipline, and widespread mutiny in the ranks. Again, it doesn't take much to find all this out. If you read a little more than the tabloids you should be able to deduce that South Korea would stem the North's advances in an instant, and also that China would not lift a finger. Vietnam, and Afghanistan, bear absolutely no relation to the North/South problem in Korea. The former was a concerted effort by th yanks to show how big and clever they were, the latter a war that everybody said could not be won before we went in. One more thing: let's say that North Korea sends it's troops over the border to invade the South. Everything is much sunnier down there, life is very much westernised, civilization is ordered and the economy is growing fast. The people have food, jobs, homes, cars and all the trappings of a well run, ordered country that is on the up. What do you think might happen next?

[tomtom]

Mercuryg you appear to be very well informed about NK - just where do you get your facts from seeing that very little info comes out of the country. I still contend that they could be a force to be reckoned with - manpower alone, the hordes could sweep over the border and I doubt we could stop them - there's millions and millions of them!!

[mercuryg]

Mercuryg you appear to be very well informed about NK - just where do you get your facts from seeing that very little info comes out of the country.

Apologies for sounding a little condescending, but I read a lot. There is plenty of information on North Korea as defection from the country is rife. A quick search on the internet will give you a myriad of informative and often interestign books written by people with knowledge of the country.

I still contend that they could be a force to be reckoned with - manpower alone, the hordes could sweep over the border and I doubt we could stop them - there's millions and millions of them!!

They are ill-fed, conscripted, misinformed, under-armed and poorly organised and the South Korean army, along with the 30,000 or so US troops in South Korea, would wipe them out in a moment. Numbers count for nothing when your firepower is outclassed. We, as in the UK, wouldn't have any part to play.

[tomtom]

Well thank God for that - we should all sleep easier tonight!

[Malcolm Robinson]

Makes you kinda wonder about the reason we went into Iraq....or what was settled on eventually.........getting rid of a despot ruler.

Hmmmm, why not North Korea or even Zimbabwe, don't tell me, they haven't got oil reserves there!

[Monsta®]

They are ill-fed, conscripted, misinformed, under-armed and poorly organised and the South Korean army, along with the 30,000 or so US troops in South Korea, would wipe them out in a moment. Numbers count for nothing when your firepower is outclassed. We, as in the UK, wouldn't have any part to play.

heres some stats......

north korea

they've got a hell of a lot of subs!

[mercuryg]

heres some stats......

they've got a hell of a lot of subs!

How many are seaworthy? How old are they? What are they going to use subs for to invade the country joined on to them?

As said before, numbers are great but they mean nothing when you are completely out-powered by the bigger, better, more modern and more accurate weaponry that your immediate neighbours have to hand, and South Korea has a fully operational, up to date and very powerful army waiting to wipe out the north if they put a foot wrong.

The problem with the news reports is that they are glamourising the situation to the point where people think nuclear capability=the ability to wipe out the world. In fact, North Korea doesn't posess a missile capable of going much further than the border with Slouth Korea, and monitoring of their tests proves the ones they do have are wildly inaccurate and prone to fall short of their intended target. South Korea may be worried about the chances of random attacks, but the rest of the world is under no threat at all from North Korea, and the South can easily handle themselves.

[Monsta®]

North Korea doesn't posess a missile capable of going much further than the border with Slouth Korea

they could always use....

as al queda do!

[mercuryg]

they could always use....

as al queda do!

Yes, and they've been very successful, I see!

[mercuryg]

....thining about that; when the ink cartridge bomb was found a few weeks ago reports stated that intelligence believed there were several other such packages en-route to destinations in the USA. Where are they all?

[Monsta®]

....thining about that; when the ink cartridge bomb was found a few weeks ago reports stated that intelligence believed there were several other such packages en-route to destinations in the USA. Where are they all?

they've probably sent them first class recoreded with royal mail! no wonder they never turned up!

[Pete]

they've probably sent them first class recoreded with royal mail! no wonder they never turned up!