• ___@l.djw.li
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    6 months ago

    Update: South Korea says it will send actual, meaningful numbers of troops into Pyongyang within thirty-one days, bringing a formal end to conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

    /s but you know they’re thinking about it.

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      6 months ago

      Doesn’t NK have one of the biggest standing armies in the world? I figured they could toss some troops into the blender and not care.

      Also doesn’t NK have a nuke? They’d definitely detonate one if they were invaded.

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          6 months ago

          Only when crashing into the ocean, thousands of miles short of its target

          Edit: seriously, though, it’s pretty clear that they can build nuclear warheads (how many and what size is unclear), but their problem is getting the bomb to its target.

          Rocketry is hard. It’s uber-expensive, and it requires a great deal of trial-and-error. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had gotten data, etc, from Russia and China like some guidance (or even rocket plans), but NK’s best physicists and aerospace engineers are both: not that great, and working entirely alone with a budget that is a minuscule fraction of anyone else who has tried this.

          They’ve been trying to launch an ICBM successfully for almost 2 decades. They haven’t had much success yet.

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          6 months ago

          I do believe their nuke works. I do not believe their delivery system works.

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      6 months ago

      I do feel guilty but that is what I wish would happen. Mostly for the sake of the people of NK. But some people would die on both sides…