F-16s still in service in USAAF are just upgraded 60s technology. Point is, that unlike the Iraqi airforce in 91, the NK one would not run away. There would be US planes dropped.[/quote]
As was pointed out already, a) you've got the tech era wrong and B) unlike the North, our planes have had the benefit of new technology upgrades. They have not. The tech gap is huge; they only have a very small number of MiG-29's (the one involved in the intercept represents 1/9th of their total. Speaks volumes, doesn't it?), slightly more MiG-23's, but the bulk of their air superiority fighters are MiG-21's and MiG-17's. The air battle will not be a fair fight, period. And seeing as how the MiG-29's are all assigned to the PDC, the only US planes that are going to get dropped are by anti-aircraft weapons on the ground (of which there are scary numbers), not in the sky.
Quote:The terrain in NK doesn't favor large armored concentrations. It would be very much like Afghanistan, only the opposition is organized, and has fifty times as much troops.
I dare say that I am well aware of what the terrain of NK looks like, and what kind of operations are possible. And the major restriction, throughout the peninsula, is on East/West movement. There is more than enough room in the Kaeson-Chorwon corridor and the Koksan valley to allow significant armored movement. If anything, this benefits us, as we can steam roll their armor and mech forces (which is a joke; truck mounted infantry does not a mech corp make, but that's neither here nor there) through the main avenues of approach when the counter-offensive starts.
Quote:They do have rocket launchers, mines and other infantry weapons that are effective against any modern armor. And effective doesn't mean you stand in front of the tank and aim at it's strongest armor.
Up to "...infantry weapons" is correct; they do have those items. The rest is utter nonsense, and I have no idea who told you that RPG-7's and 1950's era anti-tank mines are terribly effective against chobham armor, because they aren't. The best they could hope for is to bruise the decals, maybe get a tread to fly off, which is a bitch to fix, but doesn't kill a tank, by any means. I can't remember offhand what their most modern anti-tank aircraft is, but I don't think it's capable of taking out an Abrahms either. And their tanks definately aren't up to snuff, but that's what you get when you're fighting with T-54's and T-34's.