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2010-02-01 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2010-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "Korean Unification" > e.g. WMF + SINA > IIUC, CHINA broadly already fears deployment of US GMD-TMD along the DPRK-ROK DMZ - WHAT MORE FROM any post-Unification NORTH KOREA which Chin also believes will turn agz it, + deploy US GMD-TMD + other US mil forces right on the Chin border wid the now newly unified Koreas.

E.G. FORMER COLD WAR SOVIET SSRS trying to join NATO; POLAND, etc. + US BMD on borders wid RUSSIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-02-01 01:23|| 2010-02-01 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 SKOR does have the industrial capacity 7 technology to build weapons - if it doesn't fall to the Norks before they get a chance.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-02-01 07:41|| 2010-02-01 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 US air power could easily take out Nork tank columns and ensure ROK had enough time. The old problem was fear of escalation leading to human wave attacks from China and possible nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The Norks have lost this backing forever and even they realize it. This completely changed the strategic calculus in that region. The US should be gradually our troops stationed in Korea both to save money and to get them out of the way of a missile strike. The value of air power can be over-estimated, but it's great for repelling an attack by a conventional army, especially in support of a decent enough standing army like ROK's.

Posted by Odysseus 2010-02-01 08:26|| 2010-02-01 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 What it sounds is that the ROK hasn't carried its share of the load for its own defence relying on the US taxpayer and eventually US blood to pull its chestnuts from the fire.

Posted by JFM 2010-02-01 10:19|| 2010-02-01 10:19|| Front Page Top

#5 It's BS. Take a look at SK's TOE. They have plenty of F-16s and F-15s plus older F-4s and F-5s. They also make world class armour and artillery and are designing and building their own entry level fighters and helos. SK is replacing their older equipment quickly since they will take over primary responsibility for defense in 2012 and massive American reinforcement won't be guaranteed.

This while NK is (barely) flying mostly Mig-17/19 and Mig-21s.

Posted by ed 2010-02-01 10:35|| 2010-02-01 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Funny how they don't have the capability but Hyundai and Kia didn't go broke.

Posted by Jerong and Tenille7982 2010-02-01 11:54|| 2010-02-01 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Here is a link for the ROK Army's equipment listing - http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/rok/army-equipment.htm A lot of the older stuff is down much further south and is being modernized like the Israelis did with older equipment. So saying a tank is an M48 is a bit misleading because it is an M48 with a laser rangefinder, new high pressure 90mm or 105mm main gun with depleted uranium sabots, reactive armor add-ons, and an NBC-capable climate control system.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-02-01 17:08|| 2010-02-01 17:08|| Front Page Top

#8 What it sounds is that the ROK hasn't carried its share of the load for its own defence relying on the US taxpayer and eventually US blood to pull its chestnuts from the fire.

Nails it. ROK follow American Soldiers around like puppy dogs watching and waiting for us to do stuff. The KATUSA program is the biggest joke ever. I used to teach some Katusas at a command sponsored class and they would fall asleep and yak in Korean the entire time I was trying to teach them. Then I'd walk outside the base gates in civilians and be face to face with jerks carrying pickets protesting our presence. Fine, I say fend for yourselves.

Posted by shebeest 2010-02-01 17:17|| 2010-02-01 17:17|| Front Page Top

#9 What's KATUSA?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-01 19:03|| 2010-02-01 19:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Korean Augmentation to US Army

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-01 19:06|| 2010-02-01 19:06|| Front Page Top

#11 My KATUSAs were fine except for one lad who had a problem dealing with a female Warrant Officer. Turned him over to the senior enlisted Korean NCO in the brigade to handle. When that failed, he was recycled back in to the ROK Army. Since it took a lot of 'pull' and influence just to get a KATUSA gig, the family lost what ever they put into the process. That, and recycles weren't treated very well by the less economically privileged draftees and NCOs in the ROK Army ranks.

When the NKors blitzed south in the first war, most of the terrain between the 38th and Seoul was largely undeveloped. When I left in '89, it was urban sprawl from Uijeongbu south. Probably even more now. There won't be a blitz. I doubt that the NKors will even get close. Most of their troops will end up looting and pillaging for food and goods, of which there is plenty along that corridor.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-01 20:02|| 2010-02-01 20:02|| Front Page Top

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