North and South Korea stand on &quot;the brink of war&quot;

Paxdax

South Korea:

GDP (nominal): $969.871 billion
Population: 49 million
Military: 687,000 Active Personnel, 4.5 million reserves
Military spending: $25.5 billion

North Korea:

GDP (nominal): $25.96 billion
Population: 23.79 million
Military: 1.2 million active personnel, 7.75 million reserves

Couldn't find the North Korean military spendings, but I gather they are way below those of the South. Thus, my money is solely on the South. The North may outnumber them 2 to 1 in numbers, but in this day and age quality and economic capacity carries the day alot more than sheer numbers.

The outcome of this hypothetical war will, in all likelihoods be decided by their respective allies' strengths and decisions than by their own capabilities.

Moreover your analysis is very much flawed, Germany has a larger economy than Russia, as does Japan. Both of them combined will probably be defeated -thrashed, rather - by Russia (hypothetical scenario) if they were to take on Russia alone.

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Paxdax

maths-enthusiast

The outcome of this hypothetical war will, in all likelihoods be decided by their respective allies' strengths and decisions than by their own capabilities.

Moreover your analysis is very much flawed, Germany has a larger economy than Russia, as does Japan. Both of them combined will probably be defeated -thrashed, rather - by Russia (hypothetical scenario) if they were to take on Russia alone.

Ehm, Russia isn't particularly strong, you know. If it wouldn't have been for the nukes, they wouldn't be able to crack Germany and Japan. No way.

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Tory Dan

Its the famous '100 Billion and 1 Million problem' that a US Army General said, $100 Billion of damage to South Korea and 1 million dead if there was a war on a conventional level.

Seoul is very close to the border which is why it is so vulnerable.

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UGeNe

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Paxdax

Ehm, Russia isn't particularly strong, you know. If it wouldn't have been for the nukes, they wouldn't be able to crack Germany and Japan. No way.

Reality blows, doesn't it?

Yes Russia Can! Yes We Can.

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Paxdax

UGeNe

Reality blows, doesn't it?

Yes Russia Can! Yes We Can.

No you can't :smile:

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paxdax, russia dominates germany+japan in almost every imaginable conventional (non nuclear bombs) weapons manufacture and technology too.

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Paxdax

maths-enthusiast

paxdax, russia dominates germany+japan in almost every imaginable conventional (non nuclear bombs) weapons manufacture and technology too.

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You can keep denying that Russia dominates Germany and Japan combined in military, that Westerners are prone to homosexuality, paedophilia and decadence, that the Earth revolves around the Sun or that the Zionists dont deserve to exist and the only reason they do is due to complicity of British (Empire) and western world.

It wont change any facts.

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ss7

Boring as hell from the sounds of things. It's not hard or particularly expensive to go. Just catch a flight to Beijing and it's a short 2 hour plane journey to Pyongyang. Of course you're given your own North Korean guide to "show you around".

For all those who think its easy to get into North Korea, think again. You need to be reviewed and must wait until a 'tour' is open. Either that or you're a journalist going to speak to Kim Jong-Il. Its hard.

Moreover your analysis is very much flawed, Germany has a larger economy than Russia, as does Japan. Both of them combined will probably be defeated -thrashed, rather - by Russia (hypothetical scenario) if they were to take on Russia alone.

Who are you, or anyone, to judge whether Russia's military would dominate everyone else's? Frankly there are so many variables such as Chain of command, structures, communications, quality of troops, organisation, military intelligence. Let alone the fact that military hardware could be outdated in Russia, to be honest I don't think that you can even judge who would win.

The outcome of this hypothetical war will, in all likelihoods be decided by their respective allies' strengths and decisions than by their own capabilities.

You actually know **** all about North Korea. They don't even have enough food to feed their troops, oil to fuel their planes/tanks and really are a shell just waiting to cave in.

But saying that, GDP means nothing if you are a command economy. North Korea has large reserves of iron, gold and other raw materials which the army just calls on whenever needed. You have to remember, 1/3 of everything produced in N. Korea goes towards the army before the citizens even see it.

Also consider that if N Korea 'kicked off' this time, then they have thousands of missiles (non-Nuke) aimed all over the place. I'm sure that these would be aimed at all of the big US & S Korean bases.

However N Korean equipment and military docterine is still in the 60's and won't stand up to modern equipment.

North Korean equipment, to say the least, cannot even work with the economic problems in the country. Sure, they have missiles aimed everywhere, but no fuel to send them over.

You can keep denying that Russia dominates Germany and Japan combined in military, that Westerners are prone to homosexuality, paedophilia and decadence, that the Earth revolves around the Sun or that the Zionists dont deserve to exist and the only reason they do is due to complicity of British (Empire) and western world.

No, you can keep denying the fact that you are a student, who is pulling information of the internet. But in reality, you know nothing about the complexities of military conflict, or even the armies themselves. The fact is, and something that won't change, no one on here has the expertise to understand what a conflict would be like between Russia vs Germany.

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