Dan M. wrote: > > Even though the S. Korean military, by itself, should be strong > enough to win a second Korean war within a month, the N. Korean > armed forces are capable of inflicting tremendous damage during such > a war. Estimates that I've seen indicate that, with a massive US > presence (as you suggested), N. Korea's capacity would be severely > degraded within a week. The problem is that this isn't sufficient > for S. Korea to be sanguine about the results of a second Korean > war. During that week, they could sustain massive > casualties....most of which would occur in the first day or two. > <cynical>
I think the problem is that S. Korea does not want to pay the price of _winning_ such a war. The worst case scenario would be a total surrender of N. Korean forces, and then S. Korea would have to pay the price of anschlussing the miserable and hungry N. Koreans, in a scale much higher than W. Germany paid when they anschlussed Demokratic Germany. </cynical> Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
