$&*@'s getting real in North Korea

The ROK Army is more than able to fight the North and win. Our troops are there more as a trip wire than anything else.

North Korea may have a million-man army and nukes. But right now they don't yet have the means of miniaturizing them to put on a rocket. And that million-man army uses hand-me-down equipment from the 60s and has limited food and fuel.

In fact, the calculus could be made that right this second is the time to hit the North and get it over with before they become a true nuclear threat.

 

This is all way beyond my knowledge base, but from everything I've read the mid-2000s were the years we could've done something surgical. I don't know what the Chinese response would've been, but it couldn't have been any worse than their response will now be if we do something sudden and massive (which it will have to be to try to both disarm them and decapitate the leadership).

On a sidenote, the thought of trying to bring that country into modernity is mind-boggling. Would we have to give them modern life in small doses?

 

I would start by creating a North Korean version of SJ.com.

 

One of the top posters at nksj.com:

 

Fwiw, another time I recall the phrase "million man army" being tossed about was preceding the 1991 Gulf War in reference to Saddam's forces. Sounded real ominous ...until the day the ground war began and nearly all of them fled, retreated or surrendered in droves.

Looney bird dictatorships have that way of exaggerating the size of their fighting forces. But seems they've an enormous numbers gap between those forced to sign up for military service and those actually willing to fight and die when the shit hits the fan.

 

The numbers are probably accurate, if only because a hitch in the Korean People's Army improves the odds of getting a hot meal once in a while.

 

No shit. Air drop a million MREs right before you invade, and not a single North Korean soldier will raise a weapon.

 

Send Blue Apron in.

 

Reminds me of Jimmy Buffett's plan for world peace back in 1990.

"First of all, we send all the presidents of the savings and loans associations over to run the country of Iraq. That would solve two problems right there.
And world peace, I’ve got an answer for world peace. We take the money that it’d cost us to build just one B-1 bomber, that one that doesn’t work. We change it into $5 bills. We put all of this money into bags and we fly over the Atlantic Ocean, past Europe because they’re getting their shit together anyway. We drop this money on the Russian people. All those little tiny pictures of Abraham Lincoln come tumblin’ down out of the sky. I want them to feel those sawbucks in their hands. You know how your money feels when you accidentally leave it in your blue jeans and you take it out and it’s all warm and soft, oooh!
Well we let those Russian people hang on to that money for about a week and then we fly back over there. We fill our airplanes full of mail order catalogs from L.L. Bean. From up in Columbus, Sporty’s Pilot Shop. And Victoria’s Secret! The Russian people have this money in their hand, the catalogs come down. They look at those pictures on the opening pages of the Victoria’s Secret catalog, not back in the outdoors section, you know what I’m talking about right? They got the money, they got the catalogs, they’re going to get the idea. They send all the money back to us to buy the stuff. We have full employment. There’s world peace, and the Russians have crotch-less underwear through the twenty-first century!"

 

Better first change their name to Red Apron.

 

His updated photo:

 

Do you want command of the Heinz, Red Gold or Hunt's squadrons serving as reinforcement/condiments?