Nordkorea vs. Südkorea

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U.S. Experts Weigh North Korean Capabilities


OSAN AIR BASE, SOUTH KOREA – Gathering intelligence about North Korea is tough, U.S. military experts say, given the fact that scarce human intelligence sources, rugged terrain, underground facilities and a lack of permissive overflight all conspire against scrutiny.

But the United States and South Korea work hard at it, representatives say, because they may not have much more to go on.

“This is the last bastion of conventional force-on-force [threats] that we hope we don’t have to deal with — but that we prepare for on a daily basis,” says U.S. Air Force Col. Gordon Issler, a 7th AF intelligence official. “It’s a tough target. Warning time is a challenge, so indications and warnings is our primary mission.”

North Korea’s military is considered too unbalanced between tooth and tail to encircle Seoul, much less repeat the initially successful offensive of 1950 that ended with U.S. and South Korean forces backed into a perimeter around Pusan. A major technological and political element of an engagement would be South Korean and U.S. forces’ effort to stop an artillery and missile bombardment of Seoul.

Some of the North’s technological focus appears to be on asymmetric capabilities such as special operations forces, tactical missiles like Scud variants, and weapons of mass destruction such as chemical warheads......

Eine gute Analyse der Situation und gerade des Hauptprobleme der Raketen und Kanonen vor Seoul.