War with North Korea - The First 72 Hours

Seoul flattened

It all depends on whether the DPRK can get their artillery barrage on Seoul and the DMZ going before the air strikes vaporize them. If they have enough ammunition and can get it on target in time, they will annihilate the defenders on the DMZ, wreak havoc on Seoul, and potentially leave the South open to be invaded.

I surely hope our special forces can get to Kim and the Generals who run his regime before it gets to any of that.

If US/coalition strikes first it ends swiftly with mass DPRK casualties...that fat kid is proper fricked

If DPRK strikes first, 200,000 to 300,000 South Koreans buy it within 24 hours...

But with US, RoK, Japan AND China postured...that will be about it...granted, South Korea will lose billions of dollars of infrastructure

ETA: To put in perspective though...United Airlines likely lost a billion in this PR incident...

If your going to risk a billion dollars to whip an Asian kid's arse, I couldn't nominate a better kid than the fat kid

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Lets suppose things kick off with a nuke test followed by air strikes, or a missile launch into the Sea of Japan that gets swatted down by the Navy.

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Someone near Kim Jun Un puts a bullet in his head. Over with a single bullet.

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ETA: To put in perspective though...United Airlines likely lost a billion in this PR incident...

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What are you talking about? How did United Airlines lose a billion dollars?

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Based on your knowledge and training, what chould we expect to see in the first 72 hours of a new Korean War?

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obviously not a military member but if its to be believed that north korea has short range nuclear capabilities, seoul would be vaporized which would lead to the single largest loss of life in any act of warfare and would be one of the most cataclysmic events in human history as it would demand a full retaliatory strike from the united states and then north korea would be reduced to a pile of ash. we are talking ww2 level of casualites here in about 15 minutes

if they do not actually have those capabilities, the united states and the south koreans would begin with preemptive strikes on the north korean artillery pieces and you would start to see strategic bombing deeper into north korea by the united states which would then be followed by a large scale invasion by the south koreans and the US.

north korea would begin a massive artillery barrage of seoul, would probably attempt to contest our naval power with their air force, and there would be a large scale invasion of the south

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A question to our military folk here,

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Not even military personnel can tell you what could happen. Too many variables and unknowns.

we do know that they have missiles that can reach seoul from pyongyang. its just not fully understood whether or not north korea has been able to put nuclear warheads on those missiles. if they dont, then this is a very large war with a large number of casualties but not truly, history changing, cataclysmic type shite that would go down if they do4

and thats before we get into the whole fact that its also believed they have missiles that can reach beijing and tokyo and dear god if they get some of those off with nuclear warheads