North Korea Thread: DPRK Launching Missiles With New ICBM

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The M.I.C. said:
So, you don't think that mainland United States wouldn't be touched in the event that a conventional war between North Korea and the United States occurred?
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Anything is possible but the probability of that is very close to 0. North Korea is not projecting power like that.
 
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Behelit said:
Now I'm interested. One thing I wonder about is China's ability to fight the NK army in a conventional war. I imagine NK army has shytty equipment and arms but so did the North Vietcong. I read somewhere that NK holds military families hostage basically to prevent defecting of military members which may strengthen their resolve.

From all the imagery I've seen of NK, outside of Pyongyang, has been heavily forested hillsides and fields. Also from the short amount of information I've consumed about the Korean war, some of the most vicious battles and encounters were ambushes and attacks in the mountains and hills by NK and Chinese forces against SK and the US.

How equipped is the Chinese Army to invade the country and engage in a ground war? Especially given they have not ventured into the country with a military for 60 years? The best solution I imagine would be targeted toppling of NK leadership instead of engaging in a drawn out war.

Just spitballing here. Someone has to know more about this subject.
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You don't seem to see China's endgame in all this. The last thing China wants or needs is a war to break out on the korean peninsula or a regime change. The only reason why China has been supporting NK for as long as they have is because South Korea is for all intents and purposes an American puppet state with one of the largest U.S. military bases stationed there. North Korea is an allied fellow communist country used as a buffer zone to keep that huge standing U.S. Army away from their borders. If anything were to pop off in pyongyang, not only would there be a huge refugee crisis on China's hands that might destabilize the country, but China would also be boxed in by pro U.S. countries (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Potentially the Philippines if/when Duterte gets impeached) that would severely limit their influence in the region. What China wants is to broker peace with North and South Korea once and for all and use their economic leverage on South Korea to make them switch allegiances
 
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