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[-] ___@l.djw.li 22 points 4 months ago

Update: South Korea says it will send actual, meaningful numbers of troops into Pyongyang within thirty-one days, bringing a formal end to conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

/s but you know they’re thinking about it.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 9 points 4 months ago

Doesn't NK have one of the biggest standing armies in the world? I figured they could toss some troops into the blender and not care.

Also doesn't NK have a nuke? They'd definitely detonate one if they were invaded.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 4 months ago

do they have a nuke that works?

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Only when crashing into the ocean, thousands of miles short of its target

Edit: seriously, though, it’s pretty clear that they can build nuclear warheads (how many and what size is unclear), but their problem is getting the bomb to its target.

Rocketry is hard. It’s uber-expensive, and it requires a great deal of trial-and-error. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had gotten data, etc, from Russia and China like some guidance (or even rocket plans), but NK’s best physicists and aerospace engineers are both: not that great, and working entirely alone with a budget that is a minuscule fraction of anyone else who has tried this.

They’ve been trying to launch an ICBM successfully for almost 2 decades. They haven’t had much success yet.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 2 points 4 months ago

Only one way to find out!

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

I do believe their nuke works. I do not believe their delivery system works.

[-] Seraph@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

I do feel guilty but that is what I wish would happen. Mostly for the sake of the people of NK. But some people would die on both sides...

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