Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "What North Koreans Think of America [Full] | STAY CURIOUS #3" video.
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North Korea wouldn't be crazy enough to attack South Korea. They'd lose horribly and they certainly know this. Kim Jong-un is a loudmouth, but he must know that if, for instance, he started lobbing artillery shells at Seoul (which wouldn't be nearly as bad as is generally assumed, because the North Koreans don't have all that much artillery within range of Seoul, their accuracy is atrocious, American/South Korean counterbatteries and aircraft would destroy them in short order, and they simply lack the logistical capacity to get enough ammunition to their gunlines to do catastrophic damage), he'd start seeing American armor rolling over the DMZ and it would start raining JDAMs in Pyongyang. If he launches a nuclear missile, he knows that an American retaliation would obliterate him. Also, the Chinese recently said that they'd stay neutral in any war where North Korea shoots first. Without the Chinese joining in in the last Korean war, North Korea wouldn't exist today. A war between North Korea and the US/South Korea without the PLA doing most of North Korea's fighting would certainly end the same way.
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