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Originally Posted by Olefin
Getting oil to Korea is one thing I have been toying with as a possible either follow on adventure module or fanzine series where CENTCOM and the British sends a tanker with fuel from Kenya to Kowloon and Korea for a possible evac of forces to the Middle East. Basically take Med Cruise and modify the premise - its not get to Romania instead its getting across the IO and thru the Straits and the South China Sea and having to face all the fun and giggles along the way.
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That still means making the trip at a leisurely 16-17 knots on a tub through the Gulf and into the Arabian Sea/Indian Ocean until crossing via the Strait of Malacca and finally turning north to the Sea of Japan or the Yellow Sea.
Korea has plenty of oil refineries... or more accurately a couple of very big ones that can handle more than half million barrels a day according to wiki w/ the smallest handling 275k barrels located in Incheon (the SK Group/Sunkyoung refinery). I would expect in WW3 that Moscow, Beijing, or Kim Jong Not Very Ill at this point would nuke the shit out of these facilities... or not. I mean this being a fictional WW3 we can expect the US like now spent a fair amount of cash on developing ship based anti ballistic missiles (read SM-3 coming into service a lot earlier w/ ground based radars and satellite support for early warning).
There's also the fact that during this time period Korea is building a lot of merchant shipping competing with Japan. Generally containers but ULCC/VLCCs as well and that means shipyards with drydocks and the ability
to repair hull damage, steering, screws, reduction gearing, etc. Ditto w/ Japan. Even if a nuke hits it... there's still going to be a lot of scrap and hopefully human expertise that might allow something close to a offloading facility and refining enough oil into diesel and jet fuel.
Mad Mikec