re: #770 realwest

“I just don’t see the Norks folding with a whimper.”
Well that’s part of the “million” dollar question, isn’t it?
While soldiers have been fed and clothed and housed, they have also witnessed THOUSANDS of their countrymen - some no doubt relatives of those soldiers - die from starvation under the current regime. How hard and how long do you think they’ll fight?

That goes to the mindset. Which is very hard to read.

My read based on what comes out of the north, including defectors debriefs is that the level of indoctrination is very deep. That the soldiers believe we and the south would be a far worse option than what they have known.

The situation in the North is very 1984 it’s level of control.

My gut feel is they will fight with a fanaticism we saw from the Japanese in the closing days of WWII. In their minds they have nothing to lose at that point.