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**kiosokkn** · 08-29-2012, 10:09 AM

Before anybody thinks an invasion by North Korea would just be a slaughter of NK troops, look at the map. So goes Seoul, so goes South Korea. It is the economic engine of the country and residence of about a third of their population. It's only 15 miles or so from the DMZ. The North Koreans have a standing army of about 2 milllion men last time I looked. It would certainly be a bloodbath, mostly South Korean civilians, and they would obliterate Seoul before we could turn them back. This is the threat the NK's have been hanging over our heads for decades. There may be a ceasefire in place, but it is routinely broken.

08-29-2012, 10:09 AM	#28
kiosokkn Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 442 Senior Member	Before anybody thinks an invasion by North Korea would just be a slaughter of NK troops, look at the map. So goes Seoul, so goes South Korea. It is the economic engine of the country and residence of about a third of their population. It's only 15 miles or so from the DMZ. The North Koreans have a standing army of about 2 milllion men last time I looked. It would certainly be a bloodbath, mostly South Korean civilians, and they would obliterate Seoul before we could turn them back. This is the threat the NK's have been hanging over our heads for decades. There may be a ceasefire in place, but it is routinely broken.
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