T2K Today: Korea

[Fusilier]

Originally Posted by headquarters

Also I believe they have better organization and better training than the former Iraqi army.

Quite. Especially their (huge) special forces.

One only has to look at previous spec ops missions the Norks pulled in the south. They fought very hard, very well, and chose death rather than surrender in most cases. Granted it doesn't give any real indication to the rest of their forces, but I still wouldn't put them in the same category as the Iraqis - too many differences.

For one, they are poor yes, but they aren't motivated or fueled by money. Their ideology (juche and what not) is planted deep in all of them from birth. I recommend downloading one of the many investigative documentaries filmed in North Korea on that subject. It's surreal. The whole country is like one big insane asylum. Saying they are brainwashed is just barely scrapping the surface of what goes on there.

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by Fusilier

Quite. Especially their (huge) special forces.

Another concern of MG Tucker's. According to him (and he gets better intel updates than I do), it's apparently the largest group of special operations forces in the world.

[Abbott Shaull]

North Korea Special Operation troops have been conducting probes for many years. Strangely Korea is one of the few places where each side conduct several probes with their unit on scale that would be on par with the Cold War with US and Soviet would do, sometimes leaving signs they were there just to prove they were, while most of the time, the other side doesn't have a clue they are their.

One of several reason why North Korea being able to make Nuke is so annoying, bother me so much at times. More so than the missiles they have tested, these are window dressing that suppose to draw attention away. If they can make a "suitcase" and slip in into the South during one of these probes... Arm a sleeper cell their some target they wouldn't have to take out in the initial hours...Just let the sleeper cell take them out with the nuke...

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Fusilier

Quite. Especially their (huge) special forces.

Yes, they have a lot of troops that they designate "special operations" troops. For the most part, though -- and I'm not letting any classified cat out of the bag here -- their "special operations troops" are simply well-trained infantry with additional training in infiltration and rear-area ops, similar to US light infantry forces. Most of their "special ops" troops are simply light fighters, in essence.

[Raellus]

Some possible scenarios leading up to another shooting war between the Koreas.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/2010052...08599199192800