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The North Korean government is allegedly the largest and most sophisticated international organized crime enterprise in the world, with a focus on smuggling all kinds of shit all over the place. How confident are we in the ability to prevent unconventional delivery methods of assorted WMD in the event of escalation?

That’s a very good point, and speaks directly to the entire looming issue of North Korean asymmetric tactics, infiltration, and special-operations forces.

There’s two huge things weighing in our favor right now - chemical weapons are very hard to properly distribute, and their nuclear devices are crude, bulky, heavy and easily detectable.

Chemical weapons present several problems, the main one being distribution. North Korean agents would have to get their hands on a light crop-dusting aircraft (not terribly difficult) but they’d have to get two or three to make a truly sizable impact, and they’d have to overfly dense urban centers at the right altitude for optimal distribution. In this modern day and age, a small flight of crop dusters - or even one - heading into downtown wherever, well below the tops of the skyscrapers (absolutely screamingly verboten to aircraft,) and a damn good ways away from any farmland they’d have business being over, would attract immediate attention - from armed air defense fighters. The lessons of 9/11 haven’t been lost on the world, and this exact scenario has been discussed more than once. Then there’s the difficulty of infiltrating sufficient quantities of the chemical weapon itself. Smuggling it in in pure concentrate form would help greatly, but if they do, then they’ll need to process/prepare it via dilution or whatnot without killing themselves… which would require suits and equipment they’d also have to acquire somehow. Against a modern, wealthy, stable nation with top-notch border security and competent intel agencies like Japan and South Korea, this is no simple task.

Nukes present their own problems. Things like the W54 warhead and the proposed Special Atomic Demolition Munition (the prototypical “backpack nuke”) represent the peak of American nuclear weapons refinement - the W54 is pretty much the smallest nuke you can possibly make, the very limits of criticality, and that kind of miniaturization is neither easy nor cheap. The consequences of North Korea having that kind of weapon - which they would instantly sell to any asshole with hard cash, as they are wont to do - are dire enough that I can say with confidence that not even the Russians would willingly give them that kind of tech - the city that’d go up in flames might damn well be their own.

So we can presume the North Koreans will be stuck with their current devices, which are all low yield (20kt or so, since they’ve only just developed the H-bomb, and would have had infiltrated their earlier primitive fission bombs,) bulky, and not very well shielded or “hidden.” The passive radiation that weapons-grade plutonium gives off can be detected by sensors designed for such jobs - and then there’s the size and bulk of the thing. This is also something that gives every security/spy service on Earth nightmares, and it’s absolutely the most closely-watched element of North Korea’s clandestine services and related smuggling. Typically, North Korean smuggling requires the tacit allowance or underhanded co-operation of other states to get away with their smuggling - such as Egypt, which was recently busted before they could take delivery of some 5,000 practice RPG-7 warheads probably destined for their regular army troops - or Syria and Iran, which have done a brisk weapons trade with North Korea. Infiltrating an atomic warhead into someone’s backyard who absolutely doesn’t want you there is no simple task. It can be done - witness the snatch-and-grab abductions of Japanese citizens right off their own shores by North Korean agents - but once you get the bomb in, your agents have to stay hidden, somehow. Maintaining a permanent presence like that is not very easy without some official foothold in the nation (i.e. an embassy,) and North Korea’s embassies are often rented out for parties (one of them even ran a goddamn slaughterhouse) and other things to make money for the cash-strapped regime (or did, until Trump’s pressure saw many of them closed recently.) When you’re using your embassies to host wedding parties because you need cash that badly, using them to support clandestine agents squirreling away atom bombs in-country…? Lets just say that it’s one hell of a stretch to believe that they could get that past the Five Eyes alliance and the vast resources - including personnel - that they can bring to bear on that problem.

This does, however, raise the specter of special operations forces in more traditional asymmetric applications - i.e. on the Korean peninsula itself. Much hurf has been blurfed over North Korea having the “largest special operations force in the world,” (it’s commonly acknowledged that they probably count every cook and courier as an OPERATOR to puff up that number,) and the dire tales of their mad-villain preparations (like digging TWENTY TUNNELS UNDER THE DMZ) are constantly repeated.

First, let’s apply a dose of reality. North Korean soldiers are commonly used for manual labor around the nation - they’re as much a civil work force and/or the workforce as they are a military one - and even the armed forces, which receive priority in all things, never get enough to eat. Any picture of a North Korean soldier taken clandestinely shows that they’re malnourished as hell. Assuming the special operations forces get the best treatment of all, then you have a group that’s primarily remarkable because they actually get fed on-par with, oh, everyone else in the civilized world.

That doesn’t mean we should underestimate North Korea’s special forces, especially considering how completely brainwashed, fanatical and suicidally aggressive they can be - but neither should we fear them or credit them with prowess to the point of refraining from our own offensive action out of fear or apprehension. We must remember that Allied special forces have the three massive benefits of co-operative training, actual combat experience and proper leadership. North Korean commandos brainwashing makes them dangerous, but zealots are rarely fantastic tacticians - a dead martyr might take one MG team with him, but he can’t help his team flank the next one. Plus, the ROK special forces are legendarily terrifying motherfuckers that have fought with NATO forces in wars since Vietnam, and regularly do co-operative training with US/Australian special forces that’ve been fighting in every clime and place pretty much everywhere for decades - to say nothing of the 16 years of counter-terrorism operations worldwide since the Twin Towers fell. All the zealotry and obstacle-course jumping in the world can’t trump that.

But there’s a final consideration - actually getting them to their objectives. Their current airborne plan is to use Anatov AN-2 biplanes to paradrop units in South Korea, counting on the relatively small RCS of the Anatov to conceal them. Against vaccum-tube radars of eras past, this might’ve worked, but modern radars can pick up even artillery shells in flight - and many of those counter-battery radars are also capable of area air-search, as well. Anyone trying to cross the DMZ in those suicide tugs are as good as dead, and survivors will only get through via dint of luck and limited SAM magazines - to hit the ground scattered and without enough immediate support to avoid being mopped up piecemeal.

Then there’s the magic tunnels - which I’m calling bullshit on. Some of the claims - including tunnels that go “straight to Seoul” - don’t even pass the laugh test. (The latter tunnel would produce so much waste dirt that it’d make a new mountain.) Also consider that technologies such as ground-sonar (as seen in Jurassic Park) are commonplace and highly refined these days, and that coalition forces have been dealing with insurgents hiding in deeply buried tunnel networks for almost two decades now - not counting our experiences in Vietnam - and I’d say the myth of twenty undiscovered tunnels that can move hojillions of troops under the DMZ in hours that we haven’t found is bullshit at worst and deliberate misinfo aimed at the Norks at best.

The biggest threat - and the one the Norks have the most practice with - is infiltration via watercraft, an especially attractive option given the peninsular nature of Korea and the shallow seas on either side. It’s estimated that they can sealift up to five thousand troops behind the DMZ via various means. A great number of North Korean spec-ops insertion craft have been observed or discovered, including semi-submersible vehicles carrying defensive torpedoes, mock fishing boats with opening stern-ramps to let out landing craft, and conventional insertion from subs or mini-subs. Most troubling is the high number - dozens - of small coastal naval bases the North Koreans maintain for launching light craft like these (including their usual small gunboats and missile boats.)

While coalition air and sea supremacy will be largely unquestioned, DPRK forces will try to challenge them long enough to let the “small fry” slip through in numbers sufficient to be effective. Fortunately, there’s a way to put those small bases out of action - mines.

The United States has long operated “Quickstrike” mines; just (another) strap-on kit to convert normak Mk-8X dumb bombs into sea mines. Recently however, they added GPS capability to them - combined with the glide-bomb wings of the Australian JDAM-ER, it turns the Quickstrike mine family into precision standoff munitions. This vastly increases the efficiency of the mines, as you can lay them out in any pattern desired, rather than having to drop X number in Y area to achieve roughly the desired density. It also makes them standoff munitions, allowing a single B-52 sortie to mine waters from up to 80 kilometers away, keeping the big bomber safely away from hostiles (at least, not RIGHT OVER them.) It also helps that the enemies won’t know they’ve been visited by aircraft at all. With a CEP on the bottom of only six meters or so, this’ll allow optimal distribution of mines to take out anything that sorties - Quickstrikes are some of the best available and have all the nasty fuzing features to customize what you kill. A few B-52s can demonstratively shut down these DPRK sea bases (and their underground sub and missile boat bases, for that matter.) We’ll have to come back and hit them later, of course, but in the initial hours it’s enough to neutralize the threat while most of our airpower is going after much more crucial targets (WMD and SRBMs.) Even better, the accuracy trivializes after-the-fact minesweeping (since you know where each mine landed to an accuracy of just six meters.)

Which brings us to the last consideration - special forces in reverse, ours used against the DPRK. Not for nothing is the ROK publicly bragging about forming a “decapitation unit” to hunt down Rocket Man, and showing off their spec-ops transports at every opportunity (one was in the air during the recent B-1B jaunt over the Northern Limit Line, for example.) This serves two purposes. One, it exploits Rocket Man’s well-known (and sensible) fear of being assassinated, both pressuring him more and (hopefully) influencing him to keep more of his vaunted special-forces troops back for defense of himself and his cronies, rather than out conducting offensive ops against us.

And two, it serves to distract him - and any troops he might retain for defense - from the real goal of these special forces. It won’t be assassinating Rocket Man, that’s for sure. In 2015 a truly massive special-forces exercise called Jade Helm was held in the US, and though it made headlines at the time for panicking all the compound-dwelling militia types, the really noteworthy thing was the sheer scale, which even SOCOM admitted to at the time. Obviously there’s not much information out there about Jade Helm (that isn’t full of shit and being spouted by retards hawking their pet conspiracy theory) but there’s enough (attributable) pictures and comments to make it clear that at least one or two sizeable helicopter-borne insertions were done, in addition to the usual cross-border infiltrations on foot. Some have suggested that the training areas involved - rural areas in arid, hilly places that are lousy with abandoned hard-rock mineshafts - point to preparation for a massive special forces assault against North Korea.

Well, maybe. And maybe not. But do know this - the United States and its regional allies have been worried about North Korea for a long, long time, as well as Iran. These are the kinds of dire times that the military anticipates and trains endlessly for. Things like the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which is a bomb originally destined for North Korean bunkers, upgraded to take out Iran’s deeply-buried nuclear centrifuges, and now aimed at North Korea again, demonstrate this - we’ve entire expensive weapon programs prepared for these remote but devastating eventualities. It’d be insane to think we wouldn’t prepare our ground forces in the same fashion.

And when it comes to the unique challenges of a heavily dug-in North Korean military, well, thinking outside of the box is mandatory. Much is made of our ability (or inability) to seal up the underground tunnel-hangars they hide their SRBM TELs in… but nothing will close one of those exists off as conclusively as a platoon of Green Berets with a Carl Gustav or two.

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Terza discusses the ethical considerations of AI, such as voice impersonation and biased information, and the need for critical thinking.

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