serious answers please it's for an essay and i have no idea what to write.
2007-05-31 09:40:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
North Korea has a very large army, I think the US only has less than 50,000 troops in South Korea, so it would be a rather one sided fight. How could the US prevail? Nukes. I don't think that we or the rest of the world are ready for that. And why attack them, anyway? Is there some problem going on now that I haven't heard about? Leave them alone unless there is something real (no, not imaginary faked WMD's again!) to worry about.
2007-05-31 09:45:34 · answer #1 · answered by jxt299 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Look at it from several perspectives, US, Korea, International community....
US
What are the military options availiable- ground invasion, ICBM strike, air force missile strike?
What troop requirements and where would these resources have to come from?
How would this impact other military installations and military deployments?
Each option has different costs, some cheaper that others, where will the funds come from?
How will approving this miltary spending affect political dynamics in house of representatives?
What is the economic impact (short, mid and long term) on national economy, businesses, ordinary people in different social brackets?
Korea
What do you know about Korea and its military capabilities?
How would they mount a defense?
How could ordinary Koreans respond and how would they be affected, keeping in mind very poor people vs very rich people? Think about health, death, food supplies, casulties, hospitals etc. These are big unknowns where N. Korea is concerned
International Community
How would US allies react? Condemnation? Support? What kind of support? Troops (who has the miltary resources given the conflict in Iraq)?
How would countries that tacitly support Korea react? Other communist countries?
Will they go to bat for Korea or will they stay out of it because everybody has their own issues to deal with (and they can always just complain in the UN and be seen as "doing something" without spending a cent in waepons, ammunition or blood)? Or will they say nothing because everybody will be glad to see the tail end of Kim Jong Il?
How might the public in various countries react? Remember the anti-Irad War protests across the world? Would that happen again? Or will the world be happy to see someone doing somthing that might help ordinary Koreans?
Food for thought....
PS: the post above mine raises an interesting point about the draft.
2007-05-31 17:08:17 · answer #2 · answered by lokai1701 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
North Korea would be wiped out in a matter of hours, and the troops we have there are sufficient and up to the task. NK has a much larger army, but Kim Jong Il cannot properly feed or pay or train them effectively because he is bankrupt and his people are starving. This is why he is negotiating with us once again.
But there are more things to consider: China and Russia, for instance seem to have a stake in North Korea and the results of an attack would be dicey for U.S.-China relations, which is a threat in terms of trade and will not like this. No telling what China would do and how it would affect our economy.
Russia would not like this either. We can only speculate what Putin would do, but he may increase arms sales to terrorists and beef up sponsorship of our enemies abroad.
2007-05-31 17:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
With what? plain and simple. Do you know they downgraded the units to eight man patrols. In 'Nam we had twelve. They're so short of man-power they had to lower the unit man power.
How would we fight a war with Korea and the men, millions of them. They've been rebuilding their armies for, what now, almost 60 years and have as modern weapons as we have and would use them.
I don't think it would be a slam, bam, thank you ma'am. I think we'd be on the brink of annihilation.
We'd have to go back to the draft and lower the ages and raise the ages for us old farts. I'm 70, I was a master Sgt in the 82ND. maybe I can't fight but, I sure as hell can cook and let someone else free to fight that can.
2007-05-31 17:01:39 · answer #4 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's no way U.S atack North Korea,and if it happen word gonna end up!it gonna be someting like World War with much worse Effects(Because of Nuclear Power Bombs).
2007-05-31 17:35:45 · answer #5 · answered by a_boy_with_a_lots_of_question 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Attacking the North Koreans would be an act of brutality because we are a thousand times stronger than that country. It is also an evil act because hundreds of thousands of innocent North Koreans would be slaughtered in the process for the sake of a few brutal people in the regieme. .
2007-05-31 17:10:40 · answer #6 · answered by Joline 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Conventional war - pointless and unpopular.
Nuclear war - USA would win, but would regret it
Answer - current strategy is working, but way too slowly, and China is being a pain in the *** by keeping Kim Jong Il in power, so diplomatic pressure on the Chinese is the way to go!!
Hope this helps
2007-05-31 16:47:22 · answer #7 · answered by ironmainiac 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
we would be screwed!! were already screwed up w/ the war were in now! if we do go to war we would need someone to come with us.
2007-05-31 16:59:44 · answer #8 · answered by <3 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we would obliterate them. Plain and simple
2007-05-31 16:43:33 · answer #9 · answered by john s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'd move to Sweeden.
2007-05-31 17:28:57 · answer #10 · answered by mikechadwick123 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋