What are the avg N Korean soldiers issued for small arms

[benEzra]

Tokugawa is correct. An army marches on it's stomach. Sure they could flood South Korea with a million troops...then what? Most people are unable to fathom the logistics of supporting even a few hundred thousand troops.

Unless the NK leadership decides to pull a Sherman and have the NK troops attempt to find supplies in South Korea, assuming they could actually get there.

Arclights with large loads of 250gp's work wonders on caves, tunnels and bunkers. Don't have to rearange too much top soil to make entering and leaving a real problem. The real question is how fast is the responce time between comencing hostitilities and first counterstrike. We all know the good guys wouldn't do a Red Storm Rising first.[/div]
Could be harder than one might think. Given the relatively small force we could bring to bear on short notice, and assuming a widely dispersed, largely buried group of targets, I don't think it would be an easy "load 'em up and shut 'em down" air operation.

I don't know how closely Red Phoenix would parallel an actual Korean conflict, but it opened my eyes to the fact that a second Korean war wouldn't be a cakewalk.

 

[Prince Yamato]

A fact not known to many Americans is that while South and North Korea have poor political relations, BUSINESS relations are actually quite good. South Korean companies, such as Hyundai "contract" out to factories north of the border and make use of cheap labor. There are also "vacation" spots along the border that South Koreans are allowed to go to under economic agreements between the two countries. Many of the businesses in South Korea have good reason to keep the north as is: cheap/slave labor. A reunified Korea would cause great economic hardship for the South. I'm not saying I'm against reunification. I hate communism. What I am saying is that the South has viable economic reasons to keep the cold war going on.