North Korea taunts the world...

[Guest phoenixrising]

One question, if N Korea is such a poor country that can't even afford the basics for human life(IE: Food, Water, Shelter). HOW THE FUCK CAN THEY BUY AND/OR BUILD AN ICBM?!?! And if such thing was built, it will blown out of the sky before it even gets far enough, too many countries with too many planes are not going to let something like that fly over their heads.

 

Secondly, N Korea would be gone before such missle will be launched. China, Soth Korea, US, Japan, Russia, ect. al. Would blow it out of the sky.

 

If N Korea is invaded, it wouldn't be like the Korean War. It will be like Germany going through Poland. Blink and you miss the goverment being smashed.

1: Why spend your money providing the basic needs for your people when you can build an ICBM? Think of NK's leader here. This is the same dude who thinks the US is not only planning a strike on his country, but a nuclear strike at that. As for shooting an ICBM down, it's a tad difficult. Billions of dollars were poured into the "Star Wars" system in the 1980's and no tangible result occured. Even the anti-ICBM missile the US has been testing hasn't been 100% effective in tests, in an arena where one miss would equal hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives lost. On the other hand, the US does deploy anti-ballistic missiles on it's guided missile cruisers, and the Air Force has the airborne laser on a modified 747, so there is some defense. Not as much as I'd like though.

 

2. If the NK's did build the missile I wouldn't be surprised if it vanished quickly courtesy of an air strike, cruise missile strike or special ops attack.

 

3. Don't know on this one. NK has a lot of troops. Although, so did Saddam, and in the end his lot of troops became very skilled at making white flags. If NK invades SK there will be a lot of casualties as the South Korean and U.S. troops would try to buy time for reinforcements to arrive.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Remember in the first Korean War, MacArthur whupped their asses.

 

I say it's time we bring him back from the dead to lead the sequel.

 

(as long as he promises not to bomb Manchuria)

[Guest DrTom]

The Soviets had a lot of nukes, too, and breadlines that stretched to infinity, and an economy that was in the shambles. Few countries have been able to solve the guns-and-butter problem, and I think the USA has been the most successful at striking the balance.

[Guest Kingpk]

About the Korean War: the US actually pushed through the North up to near the Chinese border. It was the Chinese support(and dissention between MacArthur and the President) that drove them back down to the South

[Guest phoenixrising]

The reason MacArthur wanted to bomb Manchuria was to stop the flow of Chinese troops into North Korea. Militarily it probably was the best decision - hit the Chinese before they got into North Korea. Politically it was a bad idea, especially because MacArthur was advocating using nuclear weapons, a move that would have undoubtedly brought the Russians into the conflict.

 

Assuming we did bring MacArthur back to life, he wouldn't need to worry about Manchuria unless China decided it needed to lend its Communist bretheren a helping hand.

 

Trivia: Name the general who replaced MacArthur after he was relieved of command. For the bonus, name the unit the replacement general commanded in WWII (It's still a fairly well-known unit today).