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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Yeah, I guess that's right. It must be the Texan in me, but when someone says they're gonna kick my ass, I usually like to proceed straight to the testing phase.  |
I think it's a fairly safe bet to say that South Korea feels the same way. I think that they've gotten so used to the Norths threats and occasional shells that they no longer believe any threat that the DPRK uses.
The only real threat the North poses to the South now is a nuclear one, and that is reduced because they've yet to get the miniaturising stage on a nuclear warhead, so any nuclear weapon would be the size of Fat Man or bigger so it would have to be plane dropped, and any DPRK bomber trying to cross the DMZ would be blown to smithereens.
So basically the South is in the position now where it can say "Well, bring it on" because anything that the North fires at the south can be returned in twice the power, the North has such outdated and badly maintained equipment that any attempt to storm the DMZ would probably stall within fifty miles under ROK and US bombardment. The UN wouldn't even need to get involved unless the PRC decided to intervene on behalf of the North, and it's very doubtful it'll do that since it will be too busy coping with a massive influx of North Korean refugees flooding the DPRK/PRC border.