• Kirp123@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    North Korea doesn’t need nukes to level Seoul. They have artillery pointed at the city so in case a war starts they can just start firing. Some analysts think they could fire up to 10000 shells in just a minute. Even if the artillery will eventually get hit by air strikes they could cause a lot of damage.

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      23 hours ago

      Exactly. NK has shit guns, but even a shit gun can’t fail to hit an entire city. They might lose the war hard, but not before killing a LOT of people.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      23 hours ago

      Yeah… people tend to forget that modern artillery is actually in the 10-20 mile range to begin with. But that is really no different than “begin the invasion”. It isn’t like South Korea (and North Korea) aren’t watching the other side 24/7.

      It is just that people usually use nukes as the exigent circumstances in a time like this. And I am going to specifically not speculate as to whether a nuclear bomb could be launched from behind the DMZ.