At 17:34 14-8-01 -0500, John Horn wrote:
> > Dan, those are numbers for the *entire* North Korean
> > military. I don't
> > think that North Korea has placed their entire military
> > hardware at the
> > border with South Korea. That would leave the rest of the country
> > undefended; you don't have to be an expert on military
> > strategy to see that
> > it would be extremely stupid to do something like that.
> >
>Who would they be defending against? China? That is NK only major border
>other than SK. Yes, NK does share a very small border with Russia. Why
>would China and/or Russia be a threat?
So, a country sees its neighbours as a threat if said country has troops
near the borders? The Netherlands has military bases fairly close to the
German and Belgian borders, but we don't think of our neighbours as
possible threats. The US has forces near its borders with Canada and Mexico
-- does that mean the US considers those countries to be a threat?
>I think it's pretty safe to assume that most of the forces are at or near
>the DMZ.
In the current spirit of this list: can you point to on-line reports
(well-researched and peer-reviewed, of course) to back that assumption?
Jeroen
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