To make things easy, let's start with what we do know, as a matter of fact.
North Korea has a young (he's 30), untested leader, Kim Jong-un, who
has been at the helm for barely a year, following the death of his
father Kim Jong-il, a domineering presence. The Korean peninsula is
crammed with soldiers and armaments, more so than any other place on the
planet. A war would thus be a catastrophe -- no question about it.
There's no way that the United States could stay clear: it has alliance with South Korea and 28,000 troops stationed there.
Ditto for Japan, which hosts some
49,000 U.S. forces (11,000 are offshore) and over 80 American military installations, and would come under immediate attack by North Korea.
North Korea is the weaker side, based on the standard measures of power. The South has a GDP that's close to
40 times the size of the North's and a defense budget larger than the
North's entire GDP.
Its arsenal is much more advanced than the North's, which consists of
Chinese and Soviet weaponry dating back to the 1970s, much of it even
older.
The United States is treaty-bound to defend South Korea; North Korea
lacks an identical arrangement with China, its principal patron.
Now for what we don't know, which is where the problems begin.
READ MORE HERE...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rajan-menon/fessing-up-to-what-we-don_b_2985651.html?utm_hp_ref=world
What North Korean Attack on South Korea look like...
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