In article , "tadaa" wrote:

cirby wrote:
Kinda makes you wonder how well they can coordinate those artillery
pieces... they can't even feed their troops.

Actually their army get's fair chunk of the food, it's the civvies that are
having the worst.

Even the army is on the short end of the trough right now. North Korea
is in insanely bad shape. Even their border guards are getting on the
scrawny side, and those guys have always been the cream of the NK crop.

So the question would be "How much fuel does the army have?"

Not much, from all reports. The Chinese have apparently cut back, and
are putting pressure on them that way. The best NK pilots get something
like 45 minutes of flight time per month... not too good for training.
Similar for the tanks and other big weapons.

Koreans have had time to prepare firing positions for their artillery, so
they should have some cover. And using landlines reduces the risk of jamming
and can provide quite secure communications if they have enough of "surplus"
capacity.

....and you think the US hasn't scoped out those areas and planned a
firing solution for them? And that the command centers won't be the
first thing on the target list? We have a lot of neato
anti-communications hardware, and some of it will kill landlines quite
nicely.

You have to take notice of cultural differences. Korean mentality is quite
different from arab mentality.

But still human, especially as more and more of them starve to death.
They ceratinly have some "true believers," but they also certainly have
enough folks who will, plainly bug out at the first sign of an attack.

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