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North Korea 'under martial law', troops told to "be ready for a war"
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Anyone who isn't military are famished. But the military is huge and seems pretty capable at marching and gun rattling at least.
The infantry isn't the worry, it's the 300 billion artillery sites all throughout the country aimed at Seoul making it a logistical nightmare to take them all out before some major damage is done to South Korea. A conventional war is a different game that is a sure loss for them eventually, but it'd be all about the damage they're able to deal before that happens unless they have outside support. The majority of the installations are known but new ones constantly pop up or are being moved throughout the wooded areas. Intel is a lot better than most think though. Basically, the U.S. and South Korean troops near the DMZ would be responsible for trying to stall the North Korean military long enough for more support to get there. There's a few books that talk about that too and it was a strategy in the Korean War as well.
For a country so damn delusional, they take their military very seriously since that's where the money goes, but the key to war is good logistics as France is finding out even in Mali. Logistically, they're outmatched and rely on the element of surprise and numbers to overwhelm the enemy. So it's one side trying to quickly push through the lines while they have an advantage and the other side needing to stall them long enough for the major support to arrive which isn't supposed to take too long.
I feel bad for some of my ex-coworkers that are stationed there. It's mostly just sabre-rattling as we've seen time and time again, but it's still scary to know how close you are to one of the craziest damn countries in the world that has a government so damn warped that they believe their own propaganda at times.
This could be posturing for more "deals" too knowing them.
TacticalFox88
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As long as the US and other international agencies keep giving free food and aid whenever North Korea gets desperate, nothing will change.
Where there is truly no food, when your children are starving, when disease and famine take over will the people there realize their supreme leader is a fraud.
But no, they'll keep giving aid and food that'll be used first to feed the military and the elite, and then it'll trickle down to the people as dear leader taking care of them...
And why? Because it's easier to give some food, rice and medicine every once in a while than to have the regime collapse and have the people run into south Korea or China.
Let's not forget this is a country where close to 8 million+ north Koreans have died in the past 70 years, and camps and gulags reminiscent of the Nazi's house anyone that doesn't tow the line.
Where there is truly no food, when your children are starving, when disease and famine take over will the people there realize their supreme leader is a fraud.
But no, they'll keep giving aid and food that'll be used first to feed the military and the elite, and then it'll trickle down to the people as dear leader taking care of them...
And why? Because it's easier to give some food, rice and medicine every once in a while than to have the regime collapse and have the people run into south Korea or China.
Let's not forget this is a country where close to 8 million+ north Koreans have died in the past 70 years, and camps and gulags reminiscent of the Nazi's house anyone that doesn't tow the line.
Of course. There is enough stockpile of arms, oil, at completely devastate south Korea.
The distance between Pyongyang and Seoul is like 115 miles. North Korea has enough artillery, rockets, missiles ti completely lay waste to the city.
Sure a joint US/South Korean first strike could remove a lot of the entrenched positions, but you'd still likely see a tremendous loss of life and devastation of the South in a counter attack. This would in turn almost completely collapse the Asian stock markets, really hammer the global economy etc.
ClassyPenguin
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They do so for ideology alone. As for food, during the worst famine they were also asked to look for better days other than what thin meals were given according to the author Barbara Demick in Nothing to Envy.
IISANDERII
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What are the troops normally told?
You will be shot.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Why does the American soldier's boot say "US"? Do most boots say the country of the person wearing them on the side like that?
thesoapster
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I don't think so. I think that was just for the comic to show it's an American soldier.
Ether_Snake
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I like how he's all "Come at me bro" at the end.
Heh, I like this approach. You could actually probably speed up the culture/technology part. "Kim Jong Un, with the spare time saved from no longer doing battle with the American imperialists, invents Levi's, the iPad and the Internet. American pigs flock to purchase dear leaders newest innovations"
It says "us" so he remembers they are his boots. "Who do these boots belong to? Ahhhh us ."
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Excellent decision by the author, but I think it's still a little vague, so I've taken the liberty of greatly improving the comic so that there'll be no confusion about the intended meaning:
dragonelite
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Now i get it..
Excellent decision by the author, but I think it's still a little vague, so I've taken the liberty of greatly improving the comic so that there'll be no confusion about the intended meaning:
Didn't even need a single word printed on that comic to convey the same thing...
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Well this is amusing
PhoenixDark
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lol
User 100115
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Hey, maybe it will mean they pull some guards off of those giant prison slave camps and send them to the 'front lines' or whatever. Enough guards gone, rebellion!
/wishful thinking
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