yugocrosrb95
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By stating mistaken or not only demonstrates you do not care about facts that are inconvenient for your convictions.I wasn't referring to you,there were reports on TV,mistaken or not,that NK claimed they had over 1,000,000 special forces. That was a few years ago.
North Korea never stated that they have 1 million Special Forces nor they ever publicly stated how much they have.
There are only estimates by various organizations with some different classification on what are Special Forces.
Same for estimates made about the size of their overall military, then reserves and then also paramilitary.
Irony is that in reality you can't compare military hardware between two Korea's because you are uninformed, especially about North.Now,you might accuse me of stuff,but apparently you can't compare military hardware?
Vast majority of Korean peninsula is mountainous and can be compared to that of Afghanistan or Russia's Ural's and nothing like Vietnam that has countless rivers.And you always believe that the old "guerilla tactics" that worked in Vietnam or Afghanistan,would work in Korea? There are factors that would turn the war in favor of the South,if China and the US didn't interfere of course.
Guerilla tactics in Iraq done by Iraqi resistance inflicted considerable casualties to foreign western / NATO forces during first years of the occupation.
Another when Israel tried to occupy southern Lebanon and was kicked out by Hezbollah despite former outnumber latter by dozen or more times.
People that believe that like you are either uninformed or are simply living in the past like some do about China.
- The superiority in weapons and equipment quality of South Korea
Each side has strength and weaknesses depending on which type of weapon and equipment is compared.
DPRK in past 12 years depending on category of armament reduced gap, comparable or surpassed ROK.
In South Korea only men go through conscription compared to North that also enforces such on women too.
- The fact that South Korea has double the population,hence could gather more men and women for the war effort.
Having more men and women is meaningless if there are not enough weapons to arm them to begin with.
DPRK is made fun off for having "museum" arsenal they maintain some second world war era firearms.
According to you that consumes uncritically western media and those aligned with it without any sense of skepticism on assertions they made.
- The morale of the North,where millions would probably prefer to just defect to the South or see the regime collapse
Same media that since 1990's made prophecies that collapse of North Korea is just around corner, sounds a lot like they did with China.
Same media that asserted someone was executed only for those people to show up alive and well days or months later on state TV.
Same media that does not bother to fact check anything about North Korea and reports mere rumors and troll posts as facts.
Same media that artificially manipulates images and videos they record with a color filter like they do with footage of China.
Same media that omits inconvenient pesky facts that may be positive about North Korea and negative about South Korea.
That is nonsense as even South Korean government estimates that North Korea has strategic reverses to feed a country for one year.
- The food and other supplies for the North that might be dwindling fast or stocked up for the elite only.
Unlike where I live where my government sold out their reserves years ago and could effectively starve to death here.
The U.S. effectively gave up on propping up their regime in Afghanistan just as Soviet Union did. Before that when U.S. also gave up propping up South Vietnam.Against all that,the usual arguements are: "But the North are tougher 'cause they don't listen to K-pop,watch soap-operas and play PC games" or "they can fight a guerilla war because they have many tunnels and bunkers and mountains".
Do I have to again mention how Israel despite far larger more complex military force could not afford to occupy southern Lebanon?
You don't think so because you don't even think in first place when you write and post such garbage reply that doesn't make any common sense to those that are actually informed on the subject as Iraq's terrain is not comparable to Afghanistan nor Korean peninsula that for example Iran could be compared to.Eh...I don't think so. I mentioned Saddam again because he too boasted of having the world's 4th largest army and he too was a dictator and he too thought that his old Soviet equipment was great,until the coalition came and destroyed it.
Saddam's Iraq did not have a military industrial complex that could on its own supply in general their own armed forces that they had.
Hence after Gulf War, Iraq could not purchase new equipment and the U.S. continues to bombard them with cruise missiles for years.
Hence by 2003 there was next to nothing for Iraq to defend itself from western invasion backed up by false pretense to justify it.
On other hand North Korea in comparison has vast military industrial complex that can satisfy vast majority of needs of their armed forces.
Do not force your own wishful belief about North Korea onto everyone else as being verified fact by whatever western media spews out that you believe.Depends. The defender might collapse faster. The attack might easier. We're talking about a country that has a big part,if not the majority of the population,displeased and fed up with the regime and life there.
Collapse of North Korea was expected in 1990's and nothing happened, same in 2000's and 2010's yet here we are relics like you persist into 2020's.
You are one that focused on armor and is now moving goal post while also demonstrating yet again that you are uninformed on the subject.It's not just the armor though,is it? it's also the jet fighters,the bombers,the attack helicopters,the AWACS,the Navy Fleet.
North Korea produces Bulsae-5 that is reverse engineered 9M133 Kornet with configuration carried by infantry along those mounted on vehicles.
North Korea produces 9K38 Igla MANPADS aloung mounts for vehicles, then also in process of developing 9K330 Tor equivalent SAM.
North Korea produces Kumsong-3 that is Kh-35U equivalent anti-ship cruise missiles, both ground and air launched variant.
That still happened and you have no counter argument as evident by your reply.How many S-200s have managed to shoot down Israeli F-16s? Just because it happened once or twice,doesn't mean that South Korean F-16s,F-15s and F-35s will be falling off the sky for fun.
S-200 can touch F-16 and F-15 before they could come close with AGM-88 HARM.
Former more so if upgrades to electronics were made to improve performance.
Except you demonstrated one that has failed argument is you and not him when you asserted that it looks like one of those Iranian "alchemies".The failed arguement is on your part. What's the credibility on the KN-06? It looks like one of those Iranian "alchemies".
Pon'gae-5 aka KN-06 has demonstrated 150 kilometers range of its surface to air missiles and there is more advanced Pon'gae-6 SAM system.
But you again demonstrate that you have no argument and that you should rather stay quiet and hope people forget you wrote all of that.You base your hopes on the fact that there were rare instances of modern aircraft being hit by old Soviet AA systems.
But in most theatres of war in recent times,such systems were just destroyed or bypassed by modern Air Forces.
You admit old Soviet SAM systems managed to shot down modern up to date jet aircraft then you choose to downplay such.
Consider that Iran and North Korea made upgrades for those SAM systems that they have in their inventories.
Thus won't be same as those recent times when bunch of cowardly countries gang upon onto single one.
That single one that was bombarded here and there for a decade before they choose to invade it.
This reply would be too long to mention everything in detail, even if I tried to make it very concise.