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[MetalSlimeHunt]

No, you'd see a pretty terrifying war in costs of civilian and military casualties on both sides. If North Korea gets mobilized, they can get a helluva lot of guys, and a ten dollar crap rifle will end my life just as easily as a AR15.

Supply lines, Strife. North Korea can barely keep people fed while not at war. A terrible rifle might be able to end your life, but not if it doesn't have any bullets or if the operator is half-dead from starvation.

[Strife26]

All fine and good if the war goes on for a month. Yeah, most of North Korea can't withstand any kind of sustained campaign. It's not tough to tell a guy to carry his rifle and some rounds with him and stand at the border to meet the invading imperialists. Hell, you can do without the rifle if you'd like to be all "Enemy at the Gates" and tell him to grab it when his buddy eats a 7.62 NATO.



Yeah, we'll win. I'll kick ass and take names. Be a *lot* of dead Americans and South Koreans when the dust settles, though.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Half of the people starving to death is immediate means for a civil-war revolution to occur [by incitement] with zero SK or USA boots on the ground, Strife. The USA knows how pathetically weak and poorly managed the country is. All you need to do is give them food and they'll turn on the whip-master. The NK people know about the death camps.

I doubt NK can even afford the fuel to run Artillery/Aircraft for any real period. The country is a joke, especially the military. Their pay is food.

[Max White]

Why fight with bullets when grain nets a better outcome?
People become disillusioned very quickly when their god-leader tells them to march, while the enemy offers food, medical aid and education.

Yea, there would be some fighting, but battles alone don't make for a war.

[Strife26]

Yes, trusting the country in question to greet us as liberators because they're oppressed has worked sooooo well for us in the past.



Trying to break through the DMZ would be enough of a battle to make a war just by itself, even if the the people flock to us afterwards. That's a pretty big assumption that there fanatical-ness has seriously deteriorated with time.

[Max White]

Past examples including Vietnam, where the plan was to stomp a rising country because we didn't like their economic system, and the middle east where we funded war lords.

If you have done something the wrong way in the past and it hasn't worked out, that doesn't mean it will never work.

[Ricky]

This is how I've always imagined NK's missile program.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Zrk2]

North Korea is Stupidest Korea.

[Bohandas]

destroy

Ok while I don't like NKs government, I am morally opposed to the decimation of a populous just because one asshole with the biggest hat doesn't like other nations.

Not necessarily the entire country, maybe just the part that Kim Jong Un is in at the time; but that part will be reduced to a crater.

[Cthulhu]

Don't ever laugh at a nuke.  That being said, I don't think anything will come of it.  They'd be inviting nuclear retaliation and North Korea doesn't exactly have an abundance of space or obvious nuke targets.  It wouldn't be the most well-liked option what with the civilian casualties but they'd be asking for it and it's the threat that matters here.

[Tellemurius]

just precision bombing on mr. el presidente's house, we got bunker busters.

[misko27]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/07/north-korea-nuclear-threat/1969965/
 
Looks like the US has enough defense. As for japan and SKorea...

[Strife26]

I'd be a lot more worried over a North Korean infiltrator with the bomb, rather than one of their missile systems.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Update: It's official, North Korea has ended the nonaggression pact and cut the North-South Hotline.

[Strife26]

Eep.