I read a wargamers book where the author said he was drafting a wargame for the Pentagon and he tried to make it as lifelike as possible.  He got his knuckles rapped for showing most tank combat in Western Europe would occur at ranges of 1000 yds or less.  The Army built the Abrams to shoot 5000 yds moving 40 mph and still hit.  But he showed with German maps of Germany that most places gave a clear line of sight for direct fire of not more than 500 yds.  They still made him take all the trees and flatten out Germany so American units could make full use of their 5000 yd tank gun.

However if Korea has rolling terrain and won't allow for mass armor the advantage is to the Americans because our infantry is more tank ready, our tanks learnt in Fallujah how to support platoons individually, and the US Army is allowed an air arm that is exclusively for killing tanks in bad terrain (attack copters) and they're damn hard to spot from a jet flying past.

Within a week we'd have air supremacy in Korea (can't really hide your airfields) air and sea traffic to Norko would be at a standstill and their army has at best 2:1 supremacy in numbers and that aint enough to shove through an army, they'd be halted south fo the DMZ.   But in that week North Korea would kill a million Koreans and bomb the South Korean economy back to 1954.  So we try not to start it.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3822538.ece

Seems yes they are building underground airfields.

Also In the past there were 4 tunnels under the DMZ located, the first capable of carrying a regiment of soldiers and heavy artillery into S. Korea in less than an hour. In fact the other three could do 30,000 troops an hour into S. Korea and had multiple exits.

Besides Israel. That nation is officially still non-nuclear.

> Besides Israel. That nation is officially still non-nuclear.

Israel doesn't have a chance in hell of becoming a real
contender at being a real threat to the Americans.

They are far too isolated and outnumbered.

funny you think they're no threat skoe, because Israel is getting the toughest nagging from Obama

The north is testing another long-range missile, and have tested several short-range
missiles in the past week.

I wonder if they are preparing another nuclear test too...

> I see how it is. Aussies consider themselves Asians and decided
> to betray the Western world.

Aussies are Aussies.

And the north has gotten exactly what it wanted: The attention of Obama, the attention of the international community, the attention of Moscow, and the attention of its people (And its ability to stand up to the oppressive western imperialist expansionist... not sure what over derogatory way to describe... U.S. and its allies).

> why do you think they want attention? this isnt a
> toddler we're talking about.

No idea. I'm sure they have their reasons, though.

> sKoE )= wrote:

> > why do you think they want attention? this isnt a
> toddler we're talking about.

No idea. I'm sure they have their reasons, though.

so your claim that they;'re doing this for attention is based on nothing other then the fact that they're getting attention. the attention couldnt be a side effect, but has to be the reason....

btw, like my new sig?

i think its obvious that the North wants to have more power, and to able to exert their interests across the globe, they feel the need to develope nuclear weapons as leverage.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/01/2585781.htm?section=world

"North Korea moving a long-range missile towards its launch site on the east coast, with experts saying it could be ready for launch within a fortnight."

Mariana trench...

Those two words protect us from the Chinese, the Vietnamese, and the Koreans from digging a tunnel to us.

I already considered it when I was 12 years old and researched the possibility, and discounted it due to issues with plate tectonics and that darned trench!