lazarus1983
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ORIGINAL: kdsub They have a huge army but with little modern equipment. Their air force is competent but they have few parts…without aid from Russia or China they will quickly be defeated or starved into submission. When China became involved in the Korean Conflict, they had a huge army but NO modern equipment. And they pushed us right back from the Korea/China border back down into South Korea. A lot of people underestimate North Korea because of their limited technology. We did also, back in the day, and we almost lost. Twice. Even with this support they were easily beaten back until China entered the war. Today they would face a better trained and equipped S. Korean army. Perhaps without the supply and support of Russia and China. It wasn't until MacArthur's overrated Inchon landing that we were able to start pushing the North Koreans back. Initially they pushed us all the way down the peninsula to a small pocket known as the Pusan Perimeter. For a while, there was a very real fear that we would have a Dunkirk on our hands, that our forces would get pushed into the ocean. Granted most of their initial success is due to the miserable state the US Army was in, and the initial attitude that "all the US Army has to do is show up, and those North Koreans will run back across the border." That changed when our rocket launchers bounced harmlessly off their Russian tanks, and their highly trained and disciplined army rolled over our poorly trained and undisciplined peace-time army.
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