The new old war in Korea

[TheDragoon]

With over 700 missiles available TD, the NKs could easily throw 25 missiles at any of the bases and dual use runways and still have plenty for the auxilary runways (that appear to be hardened roadways). That would be enough to cause enough damage to shutdown the SK and US air forces in Korea until the runways are repaired. And given it will take atleast an hour for planes to get on station from either the US carriers in the region or from the US bases in Japan and Okinawa, it's not that much of a stretch.

I would think that it is likely that launching over 700 missiles could take a long time, too. Just because they have that many missiles doesn't mean that they have that many launchers (interestingly, I haven't seen a good discussion of launch capability and such online). I would guess at least some missiles are in storage or share launch platforms.

How well the alpha strike goes over is something else entirely, but the concept of the first strike from NK isn't out of hand.

I think that's the point that Pete and I have been making.

Also, here's an article I came across. Not sure if it's propaganda or not (it's written by a Korean, not sure if they're North or South), but it is an interesting read and shows some of the North's capabilities.

It sounds like the sort of propaganda that North Korea likes to send out, so I would guess that's where it is from. They like to claim that they're much more powerful than they actually are.