OT-Written by me two years ago

[The Rifleman]

A nuclear war is indeed a way to end North Korea. If they want to risk that or not is anyone's guess. As far as us knowing if they have a nuclear capable merchant ship here are a few things to chew over:

- Periodically, we do find secret tunnels that go for miles under the DMZ that were built without our knowledge

- North Korea has a fleet of submarines of unknown size that operate from concrete sub pens UNDER ground, UNDER water that come in and out of huge iron gates. The special operations community admitted that due to location and secrecy, no one knows when subs are coming and going.

- No one noticed or tracked a North Korean sub that sank a South Korean navy ship, even after torpedos were launched

- No one knows what happened to the 12 subs that were purchased 20 years ago

- No intelligence service has been able to build an accurate order of battle for the North Korean Army

- The entire Korean military is built on asymetrical warfare, to include sleeper cells, cyber attacks, operations using civillian status as cover

I've spent quite a bit of time reading about the KPA lately. I have to admit, I'm quite impressed with the general size of their forces and how they are employed. Looks to me like they've paid close attention to history and lessons learned at other nations expense, yet at the same time they are quite progressive with technology. I reccomend doing some reading as well. You'd be quite surprised.