Japan sets out defence strategy amid China tensions

[Leviathan]

[Leviathan]

[exploited]

A conventional war between South Korea and North Korea would be as devastating as a nuclear exchange though. It is estimated that 500,000 rounds of artillery would hit Seoul in the first hour of a conflict, unless South Korea preempted the attack.

I think you are relying too much on the idea that North Korea will stay rational in the face of the South Korean onslaught, or that the US will just stand by and allow the equivalent of a nuclear weapon to go off without retaliating.

[The Comrade]

to be fair, exploited, it's not that scary.

this is all assuming that the korean war era artillery that the north has been burying in the mud for the last half century even works still.

[The Comrade]

[exploited]

[The Comrade]

it would really depend on how prepared we were. if they launched some surprise attack and started pouring over the border, seoul is going to take a beating. if there was a build up on the border and we started preparing, seoul would take really minimal damage i imagine. other than having a lot of bodies, the norths military is really subpar. they might get away with a week of small scale shelling before we had complete air superiority and began bombing the bejesus out of them. they're the ultimate paper tiger

[exploited]

Yeah, agreed. It all depends if it is a surprise or not. Probably really unlikely to happen though, with all the assets covering the border right now.

[eric]

[The Comrade]

yeah the north would never attack unless it faced some sort of existential crisis where invading was the only way out. they know they can't win a war.