However, it doesn’t have enough petrol, and its equipment is ancient and unmaintained, and its communications networks are awful, and it has effectively zero airpower, and assuming its nukes actually function they’re unlikely to be movable off the testing grounds, and we know where pretty much all the weapons emplacements are, and their army can’t actually cross the DMZ without a lot of effort.
IMHO it makes a lot of sense to view NK as a pissed off 8 year old with a loaded .22 handgun threatening to shoot SK in the foot if she doesn’t get a pony. Sure, nobody wants to get shot, but really, there’s no existential risk to SK or any other country as a result of NK retaliation or attack (as NK stands right now.)
It even has enough artillery.
However, it doesn’t have enough petrol, and its equipment is ancient and unmaintained, and its communications networks are awful, and it has effectively zero airpower, and assuming its nukes actually function they’re unlikely to be movable off the testing grounds, and we know where pretty much all the weapons emplacements are, and their army can’t actually cross the DMZ without a lot of effort.
IMHO it makes a lot of sense to view NK as a pissed off 8 year old with a loaded .22 handgun threatening to shoot SK in the foot if she doesn’t get a pony. Sure, nobody wants to get shot, but really, there’s no existential risk to SK or any other country as a result of NK retaliation or attack (as NK stands right now.)