04-04-2013, 02:39 AM
I spent some time over there back in the 80s with the 2ID. You'd be surprised how much stuff goes on all the time that never makes the news over here. Personally I believe that most of the North's blustering is for internal purposes. Little Kim needs to show his crotchety generals that he's tough, and he needs to impress the people so they'll support him. I seriously doubt that North Korea will actually try and start a full-scale war, but that's not the problem. All these threats are going to have both ROK and US forces along the DMZ wired so tight that it makes an accident much more likely, and with the North's numeric superiority the South Koreans are going to want to hit hard and deep. With today's military technology things are going to move so fast that it can get out of control very quickly and there will be no turning back until the job's done.