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Originally Posted by Oberon
Ten Taepodongs taped together? Heck, I'd pay to see that, the explosion would probably be bigger than the nuclear bombs (which would probably be a dud).
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It would go something like this I think:
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True, as a denial weapon I guess it would be rather limited, but then again in the media game, you've got to just inflict as much casualties as you can and last as long as you can until the US and EU media shows enough dead bodies coming home to set in war weariness.
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The DMZ is 160 miles long, assuming the DPRK put all of its suspected bombs along the DMZ it would cover just about 8-10 miles of it. The situation gets worse if the DPRK has to plan for an amphibious or airborne assault.
There are going to be a lot of dead bodies but most are going to be North Korean. But then again there are a lot of people dieing in North Korea right now with no war. If the balloon goes up US and ROK response is going to be amazingly swift and deadly, by the time the amount of dead bodies makes the west queasy it could be over. We took out the Iraqi army in a month with almost nothing prepositioned, we have had 60 years to plan and stockpile for the North Korean Army.
Now if the DPRK does do this, and some South Korean reporter digs up my assessment and sticks it on the news I'm hiding at your house Oberon.
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Pictures of mushroom clouds rising up over the DMZ, particularly if it's done on North soil, would make people question the decision to head north into the DPRK. 
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Then again some might say we need to get rid of someone who would nuke their own soil even more.