There’s not going to be any “Second Korean War”.
Sure there will be, when there is a sign of Syrian style public revolt taking place in North Korea.
The current ROK war manual calls for an automatic invasion of North Korea in that case.
presumably the DPRK is aware of the above… and are thus only maintaining the air bases full of obsolete aircraft and army bases and artillery dug outs with decrepit guns as diversions against their “real” attack… light infantry infiltrations, IEDs, RPGs and light mortars carried by SF to hit US/SK airbases from behind… they would dress them up in SK clothes to create chaos “behind the lines”…
1. It is not possible to send more than 100 infiltration force, because the only possible mean is AN-2 or small submarines. North Korea hasn’t used tunnels to send in infiltrators for two decades; almost all come by international flights disguised as Chinese laborers and North Korean defectors.
2. One can also tell apart North Koreans by the looks anyway. Blame it on the neverending famine in North Korea that produced young men of different stocky, harshy looks in military ages since the collapse of the Soviet Union that is quite rare in the South. Have a group of these strange looking men and that raises an instant suspicion. It is same as a bunch of US special forces walking down the streets of North Korea in North Korean uniform. Doesn’t work.
What you do not seem to understand that North Korea abandoned all invasion plans since the mid-90s. Nowadays, calling for “Unification” in North Korea is an act of treason and is considered a social taboo because it implies the Southern conquest of North Korea. Since the tunnels were for an offensive war and North Korea abandoned offensive war strategies since the 90s, this is the reason why no new tunnels were built. Kim Jong Un himself spent most of his youth in Europe, so he understands the outside world well enough to have a chat with Dennis Rodman without a translator. He knows better than anyone what his chances are if the second war was to resume.
On the other hand, the South’s war manuals changed from the defensive war to an offensive war, where the ROK’s objective is to invade the North Korea at the first available opportunity, be it a popular revolt or some kind of nuclear weapons transfer to Iran crisis, and liberate the oppressed North Koreans.
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/picture-joint-strike-missile-makes-f-35-debut-383362/
PICTURE: Joint Strike Missile makes F-35 debut
Kongsberg’s developmental Joint Strike Missile (JSM) has been attached to a Lockheed Martin F-35 for the first time at the airframer’s Fort Worth, Texas facility.
Installed on 27 February as part of a “fit check” using one of the stealthy fighter’s external weapons pylons, the munition will undergo a further test later this year to verify that it is also able to be carried within the F-35’s internal weapons bay.
Lockheed will conduct similar external trials on all three variants of the fighter, while internal fit checks of the JSM will be confined to the conventional take-off and landing F-35A ordered by Norway, says Norwegian F-35 programme director Anders Melheim.
This is a strange comment. So the JSM can be carried internally only for the Norwegian F-35s, while must be carried externally for non-Norwegian users?
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