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Subject: Going to War against North Korea - Possibility, Outcome and Result
April 17th, 2017
Ed Note: Ziad Abdelnour is our network friend and associate, offering his expertise and analysis on the potential war with North Korea. I'm sure you have seen him on several news networks.
We know that regime change would be difficult because of Munchkin-Un's loyal power base and devotion by the peasants of whom (actually) believe the dictator is their "spiritual god." Those that attempt to educate the peasants end-up in concentration camps and/or killed.
However.....many of the peasants and military leaders have relatives in South Korea and (IMO) would welcome a post war merger of both nations instead of placing a puppet dictator in-charge, of which China, the U.S. and Russia would probably not agree with.
Therefore...erase the 38th Parallel (DMZ) and slowly merge both nations into one, as it was decades ago....a viable solution and alternative to future power struggles within and among their own "Deep State" operatives....a major problem President Trump has to deal with now in America.-- Dave Bertrand (Twitter) #Dave Bertrand (@bertranddave1)
Note for Daniel Brigman The Power Hour Radio Show. Maybe contact Ziad for an in-depth interview.
By Ziad Abdelnour
Going to War against North Korea – Possibility, Outcome and Result
To make a long story short, I strongly believe that any war between the United States and North Korea would result in the collapse of North Korea’s government and a massive flood of refugees into China and South Korea. This is likely the reason (along with North Korea’s nuclear weapons) why the US has not toppled the North Korean government yet.
In fact, it’s very likely that behind the scenes both South Korea and China have been sending North Korea subtle signals that regime change is not a desired option. This would explain why the North Korean government hasn’t collapsed considering that it doesn’t and hasn’t been meeting the needs of its people.
Who would win such war?
It all depends on what you mean by “winning”, the circumstances in which the conflict begins, and whether North Korea uses nukes/WMDs. If we ever engaged North Korea, I don’t see the U.S. using nukes because our conventional weapons are effective enough.
First, discussing the circumstances, if North Korea attacked the South, it would take longer than if the South/U.S. attacked North Korea.
The reason is that you would have to stop their offensive before moving back north, account for casualties/battle damage, etc. If the South/U.S. attacked the North, we would be able to neutralize a lot of their military power right off the bat, which would make things go much more quickly.
If intelligence allows for forces to mobilize early before the conflict begins, it would be faster than if they attacked by surprise and we had to spin up logistics.
If North Korea used nukes or WMDs, it would significantly complicate things both militarily and politically. It could be slower due to significant damage to our forces, or it could be much faster due to the rest of the world coming together to “take care of” North Korea.
One important factor… drones. Drones can indeed make their carefully dug in positions very vulnerable, and judging by how they are building up their military, that’s a big problem for them. I think we would also easily maintain air superiority. Given that it’s a small, extremely mountainous country, it would seem to be relatively easy to use drones and air strikes to completely disrupt their supply lines. There simply aren’t that many places where rail lines or significant roads can run, especially across the river. And we have become very good at using drones, helicopters and so forth to spot units moving and take them out from a distance.
I think there is a not insignificant possibility of North Korean collapse once the war goes on for any length of time. They may have many men under arms, but they cannot feed them in peacetime, much less in war. If they can’t accomplish a blitzkrieg and get at South Korea’s food supplies they will quickly run out of food. They also have very limited supplies of other things because they have been at famine levels for years. Outside of a few zones where they cooperate with the South (and maybe China) their industrial base is small and aged. They have few natural resources and even now have less ability to exploit them at the level that a modern industrial nation can.
One has to also wonder at the ability of their military. It is a closed society in ways that we in the west cannot begin to understand (there are no knobs on their TVs, for example, because you only get the one official channel). So you have to wonder what it takes to get ahead in the military and the government, because they have no successes to speak of, no wars won or fought since 1953, no big agricultural or industrial successes. It might be that loyalty to the Kims or political correctness is how you get ahead. They also don’t have a lot of alliances or the benefit of working closely with something like the U.S. military for decades. That does not bode well for competent generals.
On the other hand, judging by the infiltrators the South has captured, they are fanatical in a way that will make it very hard to get them to stop short of killing them. They also have many trained commandos who can infiltrate and wreak havoc in the rear.
My personal opinion is that it would be a short, nasty war. Something on the order of a few months, because the South’s military is too technically superior for them to lose quickly, and the North can’t sustain a war effort longer than that. It would take longer to dig out the fanatics who fight to the last, but the only place they have to go is China. You have to wonder if, once the North was lost, China’s leaders would be willing to host an insurgent force that the South, Japan and the U.S. want gone. I think they would be much more interested in competing for contracts to help rebuild Korea.
Bottom Line: If done correctly politically and militarily, and learning from the mistakes of the Korea War in the ’50s, China might drop North Korea in a heartbeat.
This conflict is thankfully one of the kinds of conflict the US is optimized to fight and win — we would do dramatically better than we have in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ziad K Abdelnour, Wall Street financier, trader and author is President & CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc., a “private family office” that backs accomplished operating executives in growing their businesses both organically and through acquisitions and trades physical commodities – mostly oil derivatives – throughout the world.
Ziad K Abdelnour is also Founder & President of the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL) – America’s premier pro-Lebanon lobby and Founder & Chairman of the Financial Policy Council – a public policy-oriented organization with an objective of educating and informing the public about economic and fiscal matters. Moreover, Ziad K Abdelnour is a Member of the Board of Governors of the Middle East Forum and the Former President of the Arab Bankers Association of North America.
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