A War Between North and South Korea! How Does This Play Out?!?

Question

1) Who gets involved?

2) Does the use of limited nuclear tactical weapons become an option?

3) Who wins?

4) What are the social/political realities once the dust settles?

Answer 1

If War reignites the following will happen:

1. US, South Korea and possibly Japan and a Nato ally or 2 vs. China, North Korea and with a faint possibility, Russia.

2. If the war spreads beyond the Korean peninsula or the North gets nuke-happy then yes, definately. At this point the only one capable of holding a leash on Kimmy-Boy is China.

3. The war remains a stalemate as long as China is a Communist Dictatorship. China's unlimited supply of men and civil engineering improvisation combined with American reluctance to use amphibious operations(see the battle of Inchon and the battle of Anzio for more details) makes this war lasting indefinately

4. Even If the North invades the South there is still support for communism throughout the world- even in the US. It will likely cause a panic throughout most of the West with the belief that China will resort to nuclear weapons. With the war going on countries like Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are likely to cause a spread of the war to their respective regions. Short of a computer malfunction an invasion of South Korea by North Korea is the most efficient method of setting off WWIII.

Answer 2

There are more counties envoled with that situation other that the US and Japan. Thialand (however its spelled) the Philipeans, Australia, the U.K. are also involved just to name a few. but to go into depth on that the most logical time for the North Koreans to invade the South is in the winter, that way all the rice paddies are frozen and the North can roll on in
thats because only less than 2 % of the North Korean roads are paved. Also just to say an initiation trial th to North Korean Special Forces then have to invade South Korea and make it to Seoul and back with out being caught. There is no need to a nuclear strike that would be redundant.
And the Social/ Political realities would be that families will be reunited after 50 years of separation and leave Kim Jong Ill thinking "what was I thinking"

Depending on how peace talks between the two Koreas it wont be long before the conflict will be over

I have been there stationed with the 2nd engineers camp castle

Answer 3

The South wins. The US and Japan get involved on South Korea's side. Nobody gets involved on North Korea's side. No nukes are used.

Once the dust settles it will be similar to West Germany absorbing the East. South Korea will provide huge contracts for the rebuilding of the North to China as a payoff for staying out of things.

Business is business.

Answer 4

Technically North Korea and South Korea are at war, the only signed an armistice in the 50's, in the back then the USSR backed North Korea with supplies, and China got involved when MacArthur wanted to enter Chinese land. However if the armistice was broken and fighting resumed China would probably avoid joining unless they felt their interests were threatened.

Answer 5

i'm afraid that when this happens ww3 will already be in full swing and yes tactical nukes will be in play. i think when this one breaks out it would be real hard to say who wins and loses. once the option gets used, there won't be a north and a south anymore, just one big battlefield. i think korea will essentially no longer exist. what people fail to realize is that once ww3 kicks off, there will be a global shift in powers on a scale that is beyond our grasp at this time. once the dust settles, it will take years to figure out what happened and who won what because the very basis of civilizations knowledge will be changed at the root. what once were solidly defined borders, real or imagined, will then be huge gray areas. once centralized governments will fragment into near stone age type tribes.jungle law will be the rule. only how well we have prepared ourselves as a civilization, and how strong we stand now on what is moral and what is not will decide if we will be able to become modern humans again. i think the time to start doing damage control is now. i think by the u.s. positioning itself in a front row seat will be a huge contibution to the recovery of mankind after the dust settles.let me add on here....for the first time in the history, man will go to war not for as much as conquest... but for ideals(who's right and who is wrong). i know that some in history seem to fit this category. but i tell you that they were seeking power and gain disguised as ideals. the world has become relativley stable now compared to the past stuff. though there will be gains and losses in this war, and though these are great reasons for starting a war,disguised as ideals for public approval. i think this will actually be a war of ideals. a holy war. this will be a fight to find out who's doctrine is the one that all man needs to live by to advance. basically, everybody is getting fed up with everybody elses take on things. this will be, maybe, not as much of a war as a giant street brawl. and i'd say that when people fight over who's right or wrong, who's heritage and religion is better, than the gloves really come off! nobody feels that there will be room for compramise. all will feel that they must win, to their very core! this may truly become a world war as that every single person may go to war not with countries. but with all other people. total chaos. total anarchy. we see the signs around us everyday. it may become an armageddon reaching every one of us where nobody is an innocent bystander. i think the u.s. has the potential to hold itself together through this better than all others because we have strived to find goodness even when we didn't want to. we've struggled against ourselves. so in a way we are more prepared for this new world than most. we are the man that chains himself to the wall knowing that when the full moon rises, he will turn animal.... and praying he will see the sun rise again. god bless america.

Answer 6

1. Hopefully only North and South Korea. Their problems are none of our business.

2. Of course. Kim Jong's cheese slid off his cracker long ago (Meaning, he's crazy). He has nukes and he's probably itching with the urge to use them.

3. The nukes win.

4. North and South Korea become one again. Hopefully the rest of the world carries on as it were.

Answer 7

Nobody ever wins in a war. Wars just postpone things until the next war.

Hard to say what would happen. It could be another Vietnam. Nuclear weapons would be sheer lunacy.

Answer 8

More than a million soldiers face each other along the border, ready to resume war in an instant.

At the heart of it all is General Leon J. LaPorte ’68. With the world in a state of political and emotional unrest, LaPorte is the point man for the United States in one of the most dangerous parts of the globe. On May 1, 2002, Gen. LaPorte assumed command of the United Nations Command, Republic of Korea/United States Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea.

The four-star general succeeded Gen. Thomas Schwartz and is responsible for more than 35,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, as well as 15,000 civilian employees and family members. The major elements of his forces are the Eighth U.S. Army, Seventh Air Force, and U.S. Naval Forces Korea.
Part of LaPorte’s work in South Korea has involved “war-gaming” for just such a conflict with North Korea. While he is confident that the U.S. and its allies would prevail by following the blueprint for the defense of South Korea (known as OP-PLAN 50-27), should North Korea ever invade, he said victory would come at a high cost. According to published reports last summer, LaPorte said the North Korean military has 70 percent of its army massed south of Pyongyang along the Demilitarized Zone.

Retired Gen. John Tilleli, who commanded U.S. forces in Korea from 1996 to 1999, says the North is capable of unleashing a huge military arsenal at a moment’s notice. “They have short-range and medium-range missiles, present and deployed,” he said in a CNN report. “They have weapons of mass destruction, and oh, by the way, they have about a million-plus ground forces.”

The Pentagon says about 800 of the North’s missiles can strike any point in South Korea, and they can reach as far as Japan. According to Pentagon reports, casualties could reach a million on both sides, including as many as 50,000 U.S. troops.

http://advance.uri.edu/quadangles/win2003/story5.htm

Answer 9

In 1953, a cease fire was declared and supposely everyone stopped shooting each other All your answers are in the history books. It is accurate to day...2007
The war has not stopped -- US ---S.Korea and North Korea have never signed a absolute peace treaty...only a cease fire...

Answer 10

TECHNICALLY they are STILL at war. They have been at "ceasefire" since the end of the Korean War. They never signed any declaration to end it. Thats why the 38th Parallel is so heavily gaurded.