North Korea vs South Korea Military comparison

[senheiser]

 

[PITA]

I'm not so sure I'd like to live on either side at the moment.

 

[Ayush]

on paper north Korea looks stronger...

but the main thing is the USA factor.

 

[Kompromat]

on paper north Korea looks stronger...

but the main thing is the USA factor.

Main thing is that minus the use of Nukes, S.Korean air force with its fleet of F-16s and F-15s will obliterate King kong un's arse within 72 hours. MOST of NK jets are obsolete,S.korean air force can achieve air dominance with little problem. Once air dominance is in place, they can bomb,ships,bunkers, artillery, infantry,armor at will. King kong un will lose in a bad way. The main problem is the Nukes!

 

[Karasonmuno]

Koreans killing each other...

 

[ViXuyen]

How big/small is North Korean nuke? They can smuggle one into South Korea and that'll be it for SK.

 

[jhungary]

How big/small is North Korean nuke? They can smuggle one into South Korea and that'll be it for SK.

Most intel I know did only put NK Nuke at the smallest scale possible. Ie Dirty Bomb.

The things is, if they have nuclear bomb, they are to use in "Defensive" posture. THat mean they are try to kill SK troop invaded the North. But the bomb will have to detonated inside the North.

Many intel specialist I know did not conclude that NK have miniture technology or mean to make Ballistic Nuke. Either they somehow attach their nuke in their fighter plane and drop it. Otherwise they are to be used defensively.

I'm not so sure I'd like to live on either side at the moment.

Tell me about it, I served inside DMZ once....a 6 months duty, I personally prefer back at Afghanistan than serving inside the DMZ....

 

[420canada]

note sir Seoul would be a fireball in the first couple of hours which would be a lost war. both sides have to stand down

 

[cirr]

This kind of comparison is useless when the nearest South Korean town to the 38th parallel is less than 10km away and has a population of over 1 million。

Seoul plus its surrounding areas are also more or less covered by the NK’s considerable artillery powers。

Half of SK in terms of population and GDP are within the reach of the NK's backward yet effective fire powers.

Seoul is surely a strategic target.

 

[gambit]

This kind of comparison is useless when the nearest South Korean town to the 38th parallel is less than 10km away and has a population of over 1 million。

Seoul plus its surrounding areas are also more or less covered by the NK’s considerable artillery powers。

Half of SK in terms of population and GDP are within the reach of the NK's backward yet effective fire powers.

Seoul is surely a strategic target.

Here we go again...

Yes, Seoul is an important target and the most important target. But as the satellite picture above obviously showed, not merely hinted at, is that South Korea's wealth is diverse and quite distributed. Even if Seoul is destroyed, a scenario exists only in Chinese minds, South Korea will survive. If signs of war are evident, South Korea's leadership will be equally distributed to assure continuation of government. But for North Korea, if Pyongyang is destroyed, NKR will collapse. Little wealth does not mean it cannot collapse. If anything, so little mean it will require only a nudge instead of a shove. NKR's leadership can go to the most remote parts of North Korea and it would do them no good. They have little to rule before, and once South Korea controls North Korea's airspace, chubby Kim will have nothing but roaches to lord over wherever bunker he may be.

 

[Jango]

This isn't even a match, North Korea will be obliterated before they can say Kim Jong Un!

 

[saiyan0321]

Its not about numbers it,s about quality. South korea has f16 in its force they can very easily destroy north korean planes however the battle will not be one sided as both sides are soo close that main cities will get dragged into it and north korean artillary will target and may even advance to seoul. North korea does have one advantage and its naval battle. If those submarines are used wisely they can give a very good punch to south on the naval action and may even create a blockade, ofcourse this lies on how they utilize their naval resources.

Equipment is a big difference. Korea has assault rifles heavy assault rifles heavy machine guns from USA e.t.c.

Their tank equipment is based on M48 patton tanks and they are well equipped in it. Good SAM system, great artillary and air defense which is very good. This strength in quality will equalize the weakness in quantity.

North possesses ofcourse nuclear bombs that if used will pretty probe nato to stop them. Seems like a very destructive battle.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Damn..Nk has 72 subs.. but 3 warship??

another point..NK has nearly 12 nukes??isn't it quite exaggerated??
Nk's main power is its massive Army..but poor airpower will be achilles heel for them..

 

[gambit]

Damn..Nk has 72 subs.. but 3 warship??

another point..NK has nearly 12 nukes??isn't it quite exaggerated??
Nk's main power is its massive Army..but poor airpower will be achilles heel for them..

If there is going to be a shooting war, the Nork's navy will be either sunk or self contained. The US will make sure of that, no matter how much the Chinese members here crow about the shooting of a South Korean Navy ship.

 

[applesauce]

Here we go again...

Yes, Seoul is an important target and the most important target. But as the satellite picture above obviously showed, not merely hinted at, is that South Korea's wealth is diverse and quite distributed. Even if Seoul is destroyed, a scenario exists only in Chinese minds, South Korea will survive.

picture of lights does not tell anyone how "distributed" wealth/population is in a country.

FACT: Seoul itself contains 10 million people or over 1/5 the TOTAL population of south korea (crammed into one large city, perfect for artillery strikes) and if the greater metropolitan area is included, it has nearly 26 million people, that's about HALF the TOTAL population of south korea. NO other single city/region in south korea is as important as this.

FACT: seoul generates about 260 billion dollars of GDP, that is again about 20% the TOTAL GDP of south korea

Seoul is very much a strategic target, 20% of south is basically right there, for a comparison in gdp/population at risk, imagine the entire states of California and new york under the threat of 10,000 artillery per city in each state. strategic in every sense

If signs of war are evident, South Korea's leadership will be equally distributed to assure continuation of government. But for North Korea, if Pyongyang is destroyed, NKR will collapse. Little wealth does not mean it cannot collapse. If anything, so little mean it will require only a nudge instead of a shove. NKR's leadership can go to the most remote parts of North Korea and it would do them no good. They have little to rule before, and once South Korea controls North Korea's airspace, chubby Kim will have nothing but roaches to lord over wherever bunker he may be.

no one expects a north korea to win any war with south korea, especially if the US joins. but that's not the problem, the problem is NK holds 20%+ of SK at great risk and continually engages in small attacks/threats/etc SK wants to respond but if SK is not careful it risks uncontrolled escalation to war which, while it will win, will costs it dearly in wealth and population and further, it can not conduct preemptive attacks to start a war, such a unilateral move will force the PLA to enter the war, yet if it waits for the north to start a war at the north's choosing, it loses very important first move advantages. essentially its between a rock and a hard place, the small attacks are not enough to force a war but enough to do dmg to SK, and SK's options for retaliation in these atks are limited.