Korean War, Part 2?

[kinvore.livejournal.com]

Apparently an investigation into the sinking of a South Korean naval ship in March has concluded that North Korea had launched a torpedo into the ship. Of course North Korea denies the accusation, warning that any retaliation would trigger war.

Assuming the results of the investigation are accurate, how should South Korea respond? How WILL they respond? If all-out war finally breaks about again between the Koreas, how will it affect US/China relations? It seems unlikely that they will be drawn into the conflict, but I wouldn't bet money on either possibility.

It seems to me that without help from China, North Korea won't last very long against an all-out offensive by South Korea. Then again I'm by no means an expert. Of course as the article points out, this is hardly the first time that NK has done this sort of thing, and war hadn't broken out then either.

Comments

[ironhawke.livejournal.com]

I know it may sound a little bizarre, but I'd be interested in seeing what the results would be of a renewed conflict between the two. Its obvious the NK needs to be dismantled...their culture is simply decaying and its a matter of time until they completely collapse. The problem is that we'd have INTENSE international strain. While I doubt either the US or China would overtly fight the war on either side...I wouldn't doubt that we'd finance the bajeesus outta it.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

It ends badly for both sides. Seoul will once more look like Berlin in June of 1945 and North Korea's massive army is going to be nothing short of cannon fodder for the South Koreans and the USA, and also all the landmines in the DMZ. Even back when the North Korean army was technologically equal to the USA much more than now it was blunted in a half-year.

Nowadays they'd have maybe a month or two and have to put all their faith in numbers, which would cause the war to be a much smaller-scale version of the Eastern Front of World War I.