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North Korea cancels truce

There was no truce. Just an armastice agreement.

But they did abandon that.

This is definitely worrying, though my dad says they are very unlikely to start a new conflict.

=)
 
Sword_Of_Truth said:
It's on again.

I hope you haven't burned your draft card yet.
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This time I hope we bury them. My Uncle was never right in the head after he came back from Korea. He and his platoon were pinned down for several days and he was the only one to come out of it physically whole. Thereafter he had to sleep in a bed in the middle of the room because he would punch holes in the walls in the violent nightmares he had almost every night.
 
How would the North Korean military hold up in a conventional war, assuming the Chinese stay out of it? They've got a lot of manpower, I hear, but wouldn't South Korean soldiers be better trained and equipped (and fed)?
 
Sir Robin Goodfellow said:
How would the North Korean military hold up in a conventional war, assuming the Chinese stay out of it? They've got a lot of manpower, I hear, but wouldn't South Korean soldiers be better trained and equipped (and fed)?
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they have a million soldiers. assuming it stays conventional, they could kick some major $$$.
 
parky76 said:
they have a million soldiers. assuming it stays conventional, they could kick some major $$$.
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Doubtful. Their numbers are not that much greater than South Korea's, and they'd be fighting an offensive war against a well-trained and well-equipped enemy.
 
parky76 said:
There was no truce. Just an armastice agreement.

But they did abandon that.

This is definitely worrying, though my dad says they are very unlikely to start a new conflict.

=)
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An armistice is more significant than a truce. A truce is merely a temporary halt on battle, normally for the purposes of conducting a specific negotiation (such as a surrender, or to bury the dead). A truce is almost always necessary to negotiate an armistice, which is a more long term agreement to stop fighting.

I think you are getting confused with a peace treaty, which is a formal end to warfare, and which was never implemented for the Korean War.

This latest incident is interesting. Is this just more saber rattling, or something more serious from the North? Also, to those familiar with the geo-politics of the area, it is my understanding that there's some pretty solid bonds between North Korea and China. Does anyone know how strong those bonds are? Does China exert any sort of control over the North?
 
BenBurch said:
Kim is reportedly very ill. This might be dementia, but nobody there dares ignore him.
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There is that saying..."Only the good die young." These dictators apparently stay ill for a very long time, long enough to do some damage along the way.
 
I think this is the sign of a new regime taking over be it one of Il's sons or the generals. A regime that I believe wants to go out in a blaze of glory. Also I don't think China can put a lid on the monster they've been brewing. If China does block trade it may force their hand and I think they will at the very least try to attack South Korea and at worst launch a nuke at someone as their last hurrah.
 
BenBurch said:
This time I hope we bury them.
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Bury nothing. The entire country should be incinerated to the point of there being nothing left standing ... as if it never even existed. I don't wish to take the chance of any coming back as zombies.
 
Policenaut said:
... I think they will at the very least try to attack South Korea and at worst launch a nuke at someone as their last hurrah.
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It would be a blast to see it detonate at the launch site ... or better still, come down right on Kim's palace.
 
Must admit that I have no idea what N. Korea are doing, or even thinking. It seems I am not the only one
 
it isn't fair for the civilians there, I feel the most sorry for them throughout it all.

The regime then must be crazy if they want to attack with all the odds against them. Suicidal at best.
 
BenBurch said:
Kim is reportedly very ill. This might be dementia, but nobody there dares ignore him.
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I think what's probably going on is some of the hard-liners in the NK government are taking advantage of the situation to push their agenda. It may sound crazy, but it seems as if Kim wasn't the most militant nutcase in NK - he may have actually been holding the really dangerous people back, until now.

Man, how messed up is that? :boggled:

ETA: I really, truly hope that NK backs down and that this is just more saber rattling. Because if they don't, it's going to be a really nasty mess. Ugh...
 
parky76 said:
they have a million soldiers. assuming it stays conventional, they could kick some major $$$.
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They could do some major damage, but without help from China, they'd lose badly. AFAIK the NK Air Force is pretty crappy, their pilots cannot be well-trained because they haven't been able to afford much air time, and it's unclear how long they could keep their aircraft flying even if nobody was shooting them down. If the US/South Korea alliance had absolute air superiority, the NK advantage in numbers on the ground would mean little.
 
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