North Korea V.S. U.S.A.?

Question

how many soliders are in the united states and in north korea last year or this year.
Who do you think will win and how?

Answer 1

I'm not sure of the numbers, but if we went into an outright war, the US would win easily.

For those that may point to Afghanistan and Iraq, keep in mind we are not at war with those countries, just the terrorist cells within them! It's harder to fight this type of war when you can't target cities without killing some of those we are trying to liberate.

Answer 2

One country alone can mobilize its forces faster and efficiently better than any other; that country is the United States..(U.K. does an excellent job as well). Combined with S. Korean forces, and considering the fact that N. Korea's Nuclear program is in its infancy, I would say North Korea would be easily defeated.. There would be probably be a high number of defections as well, as many in the North are brutalized under Kim's regime..Also, I dont see this as a lone fight, I am sure that if it ever came to action; this would be a NATO campaign..

That being said, any war, battle, etc. with N. Korea, would be costly in lives, and money, before it would be all over. It would not be a "cakewalk".

If the U.S. had to go it alone.....

U.S.
Aircraft: 18,169
Armor: 29,920
Artillery Systems: 5,178
Missile Defense Systems: 35,324
Infantry Support Systems: 2,441
Naval Units: 1866
Merchant Marine Strength: 470

South Korea:
Aircraft: 1,481
Armor: 4,650
Artillery Systems: 5,528
Missile Defense Systems: 7,032
Infantry Support Systems: 13,000
Naval Units: 85
Merchant Marine Strength: 650

North Korea
Aircraft: 1,624
Armor: 6,560
Artillery Systems: 21,400
Missile Defense Systems: 16,075
Infantry Support Systems: 9,200
Naval Units: 708
Merchant Marine Strength: 284

To the detractors...

1. The U.S. has not utilized its full military strength in Iraq nor Afghanistan, Political pressure keeps the numbers where they are today..
Available Military Manpower: 67,742,879
Total Military Personnel: 2,369,239
Active Frontline Personnel: 1,421,950
2. As stated above, this would be a combined effort between the U.S. and S.Korea, More likely a NATO coalition...
3. If You mention the Korean as an example, you do so in ignorance..The war was to protect the South from Invasion from the North. Mcarthur elevated the action well into North Korean territory until 270,000 Chinese PVA troops showed up as well as later Soviet combat advisors, aircraft pilots, and weapons and we were pushed south of the 38th parallel DMZ..Later regaining ground and settling at the DMZ. This is in spite of the fact that initially,
the post-World War II demobilization of U.S. and allied forces, which caused serious supply problems for American troops in the region (excluding the United States Marines, the infantry divisions sent to Korea were at 40% of paper strength, and the majority of their equipment was found to be useless).

the goal of the Korean war was to recapture all of what had been South Korea before an agreement was reached in order to avoid loss of any territory.
It was not a defeat.

Answer 3

North Korea has one million soldiers in active duty. I think the US is much less, somewhere around 400,000 and many of them are over in a place called the Middle East. Let's hope military forces will not be necessary.

Answer 4

US easy, the US has i think the 2nd largest military, while NK has the 5th. The US is more intellegent and more advanced. Plus, i think a lot of NK generals would defect when they get the chance.

Answer 5

It's not about how many soldiers, it's about how many nukes and who strikes first... see if they strike us and don't have a whole lot of nukes, it's easy for us to destroy the rest of their nukes, but if we don't have many we will have to be very precise in where we hit, so that we destroy all their nukes...

Answer 6

sorry, no idea