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[Nikov]

Wait, who said jungle warfare?
Korea's mountainous is it not?

Mountainous jungle, I think.

Mountainous fuck-my-balls-fell-off cold in the winter. Not a jungle at all. Really Dwarfy terrain when you get down to it.

[RedWarrior0]

I think he was thinking about Nam.

[scriver]

Djungle doesn't mean much more than thick forest/forest with thick under- and middlegrowth. Doesn't have to be a tropical rainforest to count.
Of course, I have absolutely no idea whether such woods exist in the Korea region, so my nitpicking doesn't really have a point.

[Il Palazzo]

Djungle doesn't mean much more than thick forest/forest with thick under- and middlegrowth. Doesn't have to be a tropical rainforest to count.
Of course, I have absolutely no idea whether such woods exist in the Korea region, so my nitpicking doesn't really have a point.

Not tropical=not a jungle:

a tropical forest in which trees and plants grow very closely together

an area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics

Jungle (Sanskrit: जंगल) refers to the most dense, more or less impenetrable regions within a tropical rainforest with an abundance of animal and plant life.

No jungles in NK:

Vegetation on the highlands, especially around Mount Paektu, consists of coniferous trees such as the Siberian fir, spruce, pine, and Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis). The western lowlands were originally covered by temperate mixed forests with many types of plants, but continuous deforestation has left only remote patches of the original forests. Most of the lowlands are now cultivated, except for some of the hills that are covered with small pine groves mixed with oaks, lindens, maples, and birches. Along streams that are subject to flooding or where the ground is too stony for cultivation, reeds, sedges, wild mulberry trees, and Italian poplars are found. Common river fish include carp and eels.

[Leafsnail]

Which is relevant to anything how?

[Eugenitor]

It means that the terrain won't and can't be as hard to navigate as, say, Vietnam.

Right now the national strategy for dealing with NK appears to be "Wait for daddy to die and see if his son is amenable to sanity".

[Akura]

Common river fish include carp and eels.

Explains so much right there.

[Eugenitor]

Frankly, with the food situation in NK I'd be surprised if there were a lot of either left.

Yes. The North Koreans have probably eaten all the carp. *shudder*

[Il Palazzo]

Which is relevant to anything how?

Mostly to nitpicking, and showing off how you do properly nitpick - with links to sources and all.
Also, during the "let's invade NK" phase of the discussion, there were people saying that it'd be another Quagrime with jungle warfare and communists, so it kinda aims at showing that no jungles=no jungle warfare.

[Akura]

Forest combat isn't much better...

[Leafsnail]

Mostly to nitpicking, and showing off how you do properly nitpick - with links to sources and all.
Also, during the "let's invade NK" phase of the discussion, there were people saying that it'd be another Quagrime with jungle warfare and communists, so it kinda aims at showing that no jungles=no jungle warfare.

Noone said "This invasion will fail purely because of the fact that North Korea is a tropical country full of forests" or anything of the sort.  Jungles only seemed to come up as a joke relating to Hearts of Iron.

[Eugenitor]

Also, during the "let's invade NK" phase of the discussion, there were people saying that it'd be another Quagrime with jungle warfare and communists, so it kinda aims at showing that no jungles=no jungle warfare.

Oh you can have a quagmire in mountains and deserts, too.

However, taking over authoritarian top-down societies is much easier than taking over semi-anarchic, semi-feudal societies with no clearly defined nation that will erupt into chaos as soon as the local dictator is toppled.

[Dakk]

Yea, the whole herp derp lets invade naurt koreea and take controlz! seems slightly silly to me? What would you do with a barebones militaristic nation without its dictator? Pull off an Iraq again?

Stomping a small (and angry) nation like north korea is easy, but what do you do when the only govermental party they had toppled and suddenly need food, water and services that were once provided by said government?

[RedWarrior0]

Yea, the whole herp derp lets invade naurt koreea and take controlz! seems slightly silly to me? What would you do with a barebones militaristic nation without its dictator? Pull off an Iraq again?

Stomping a small (and angry) nation like north korea is easy, but what do you do when the only govermental party they had toppled and suddenly need food, water and services that were once provided by said government?

Technically, they are provided by China.

[Dakk]

Herp derp lets invade then pretend nothing happened by letting china take over and make tibet 2.0?

Pro.