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[Neonivek]

I think we're going to have a lot of people running around like headless chickens until this crisis is resolved.

If I didn't know you better, and this phrase, I'd say you were making a TERRIBLE terrible pun.

[Mephansteras]

Hey Skyrunner (or anyone else who knows Korean), does the North Korean government really sound that ridiculous all the time in Korean, or is some of that a translation issue?

[Just Some Guy]

If North Korea attacks, we may not have to worry about enemy tanks:http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=10398
C'mon guys. All this talk about military first and this is the best you've got?

[Lightningfalcon]

If North Korea attacks, we may not have to worry about enemy tanks:http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=10398
C'mon guys. All this talk about military first and this is the best you've got?

A good Tire Kingdom there would improve their military by a factor of at least eight or seven.  I mean, really?  RICE STRAW?

[Flying Dice]

If North Korea attacks, we may not have to worry about enemy tanks:http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=10398
C'mon guys. All this talk about military first and this is the best you've got?

Don't you understand? Tank drivers who can't drive are scary. Sensible tankers will steer clear of cities and infantry for fear of AT weapons and traps, but incompetent ones will pull Commissar antics and try to run over everything.

[Lightningfalcon]

If North Korea attacks, we may not have to worry about enemy tanks:http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=10398
C'mon guys. All this talk about military first and this is the best you've got?

Don't you understand? Tank drivers who can't drive are scary. Sensible tankers will steer clear of cities and infantry for fear of AT weapons and traps, but incompetent ones will pull Commissar antics and try to run over everything.

"Drive me closer! I want to swing my turret to bludgeon them!"

[mainiac]

"Drive me closer! I want to swing my turret to bludgeon them!"

But they ran out of oil for the turret hydraulics back in 1963.

[Flying Dice]

"Drive me closer! I want to swing my turret to bludgeon them!"

But they ran out of oil for the turret hydraulics back in 1963.

North Korea uses draft animals to tow their tanks and traverse the turrets.

[mainiac]

I figure there is a non-negligible chance that after North Korea comes to a merciful end we will learn that the artillery they are threatening Seoul with is nearly all inoperable.  If so, people 50 years from now will wonder what the fuss was about and how we could not have realized that nothing North Korean worked.

[misko27]

I figure there is a non-negligible chance that after North Korea comes to a merciful end we will learn that the artillery they are threatening Seoul with is nearly all inoperable.  If so, people 50 years from now will wonder what the fuss was about and how we could not have realized that nothing North Korean worked.

they have nuclear weapons. It is literally the foundation of their regime. A nuclear weapon is a non-trivial piece of hardware. Sure, we can make jokes, but that is not something your average state can whip up in a lab.
 
Also, the artillery threat isn't the one they mentioned, it's the one we figured out based on their capabilities. We know what works and what doesn't. And we know their tanks don't work, but their Artillery sure does.

[Strife26]

I figure there is a non-negligible chance that after North Korea comes to a merciful end we will learn that the artillery they are threatening Seoul with is nearly all inoperable.  If so, people 50 years from now will wonder what the fuss was about and how we could not have realized that nothing North Korean worked.

they have nuclear weapons. It is literally the foundation of their regime. A nuclear weapon is a non-trivial piece of hardware. Sure, we can make jokes, but that is not something your average state can whip up in a lab.
 
Also, the artillery threat isn't the one they mentioned, it's the one we figured out based on their capabilities. We know what works and what doesn't. And we know their tanks don't work, but their Artillery sure does.

Yeah, throwing a round on a trajectory arc isn't a super complicated process. Accuracy is somewhat more touchy, but South Korea isn't a particularly small target.

[Skyrunner]

Hey Skyrunner (or anyone else who knows Korean), does the North Korean government really sound that ridiculous all the time in Korean, or is some of that a translation issue?

Yes.



They talk in a distinctive style that's made fun of often and they also are stupidly obviou in thir propangda. There's a reason SK doesn't worry about the North->South propangda (we're rich and they sound hilarious) but NK flips out every time something comes their way.

Also, we know their artillery works because they used it on Yunpyungdo a couple years back.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Their artillery works, but estimates of their equipment capabilities only let them hit northern Seoul. And only if the Seventh Fleet fails to kill them into oblivion the second the conflict reignites, which the Seventh Fleet has been preparing for for decades.

[Sheb]

Yes, but Northern Seoul is still a lot of people.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The point is that it is not the end of the world even if North Korea does manage to attack Seoul. The worst case scenario is not the city's annihilation, despite popular opinion.