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Are we afraid of North Korea? Is North Korea dangerous?
Okay...what in the WORLD is going on with North Korea? Are they firing missiles at the US? Are they using nuclear bombs? Are they testing nuclear bombs? I'm SO confused with all the media stuff.
Can someone please just tell me? I'm scared and need to know what is going on for sure!
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North Korea currently has the largest land forces in the world. current estimates put them at approximately 900,000, they have the largest artillery force in the world, capable of leveling soeul in twenty minutes. some 6,000 plus russian built tanks. double the number of american M1 series tanks ever produced (keep in mind that many are currently mothballed).
Their strategic and tactical missile force has been expanding exponentially since they got ahold of the russian SCUD short range ballistic missile, many variants of this original have been built by the north koreans, some of the Teiphodong missiles are supposedly capable of reaching hawaii or the aleutian chain.
BUT.... and I assure you its a big one.....
The north korean peoples liberation army has been consuming the country's resources at an unsustainable rate, and is now starving. last I heard, they can no longer conduct training with their mechanized force because they have no more fuel for it. last I heard, their army could fight for about a month before they ran out of fuel. Their huge tank army is critically outdated, most being the T-55 and T-62 tanks, built well before your parents were even born, and no match for the american and south korean tanks, which were designed specifically as defensive weapons to face off against the even larger russian juggernaut that would have come through the Fulda gap. An american tank crew can fight as many as ten times their number and survive. Their artillery is world war II vintage rubbish. that doesn't mean they can't fight though. there's a look at their conventional forces.
here's their nuclear assesment:
both nuclear weapons they detonated were Fizzles(2006 and 2009), which means that they were practically useless as real weapons. though it is a step in the right direction, their tests were pathetic in the scheme of things. basically the force of the twin towers collapsing had more force than either of their runt weapons. last month, they tested their newest flying piece of trash, the teiphodong II, the one that everybody's scared of, and it fell apart after ony about fifty miles. roughly six thousand miles short of any american territory. North Korea is incapable of hurting the United states, they can try hitting our bases on japan and okinowa, but thats with their SCUD missiles, a ridiculously inaccurate weapon system. Don't get me wrong, they're a threat to american interests in east asia, but mostly a paper tiger that the media has a habit of making into the new russian juggernaut. they're a rogue state that has approximately 37% of their population in concentration camps, or as they call them "re-education centers". Kim jong Il has sent out spies to kidnap japanese actresses for his "pleasure brigade". this dude is a complete monster, he's starving his people (ever hear of the "korea diet"?), and there's no clean way to stop him. so we wait for him to die, because the cost of an american assault has been clocked in at over ten thousand american dead with south korea devastated. High tech gadgets mean nothing when you're facing down a bird-chested NKPA soldier with your bare hands, kid. and it would come to that. so just get used to hearing zany stupid saber rattling coming from that hellhole until that midget bastard finally dies.
its a fact of life.
and if it came to war, yours truly would be jumping in with all of his buddies just like the Normandy invasion. Airborne all the way.
-gunner
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Oh goodness, this is why I hate media fear-mongering.
North Korea is a bit of a troublemaker. They've been testing missiles, and they refuse to give up their nuclear weapons development programs. Then again, the U.S. isn't likely to do that either, so I don't see the huge deal.
Basically, they've been testing missiles. Not firing at actual targets, and definitely not in U.S. airspace! They've been firing them over China, who has subsequently halted trade with them.
North Korea would never be so stupid as to attack the United States. Think about what would happen... not only would you guys beat the living tar out of them, so would the rest of your allies, because nobody likes an unprovoked attack.
Please don't worry yourself about North Korea. This is what happens when nothing else exciting is going on in the news, and they need a way to keep people buying newspapers.
If it helps any, here's an article explaining how the U.S. could defend against a nuclear attack from North Korea:
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