Originally Posted by
Pontius Navigator
Ken, in theory, but it would become a classic attrition exchange.
The winner would be the one with the most guns.
Could make an interesting computer game. A fires 100 guns. B counter fires 75 and eliminates 100. A retaliated with 100 and eliminates 75 and so on. The skill being to use and lose less guns.
Even if the DPRK has superiority in the number of artillery they are limited in their mobility. I strongly suspect that US / ROK airpower will ensure that the DPRK will rapidly be decimated in any shooting war. A major concern for the ROK is that they will most likely survive long enough to give anything within range a very hard time for a week or two.
Another major concern is the unknown status of the PDRK nuclear arsenal.
How many nuclear warheads are available? Does the PDRK have the political will to use them and accept the consequences? (Given the dodgy haircut on the great fat one you cannot but help wonder if he is a couple of peas short of a pod.) Bearing in mind that they are not necessarily limited to conventional delivery means such as aircraft, missiles and artillery, how can they be delivered and to where? (Again we are not necessarily limited to locations within the Korean locality. For examples sake, what if bombs were loaded into merchant ships and sailed in plain sight into distant harbours and detonated?)