Oh, I agree that the North Korean army is probably pretty good and well disciplined.
The question is whether it is a pretty good modern army or a pretty good 1950's army.
And whether it's soldiers have strong internal discipline or brittle discipline imposed from outside.
A modern army with internal discipline would form extremely dangerous and well motivated cells if their country was invaded. A brittle 50's army would not be flexable enough and wouldn't be able to maintain discipline without external leadership.
Except nobody really wants to pay the price to find out - so it'll hopefully remain a mystery.
Allowing a foreign enemy to murder your people is unacceptable - but the cost of war would be too high, except as a last resort. I will not forget or forgive either, but the North Korean goverment already had so much innocent blood on its hands that this didn't add much.
The question is whether it is a pretty good modern army or a pretty good 1950's army.
And whether it's soldiers have strong internal discipline or brittle discipline imposed from outside.
A modern army with internal discipline would form extremely dangerous and well motivated cells if their country was invaded. A brittle 50's army would not be flexable enough and wouldn't be able to maintain discipline without external leadership.
Except nobody really wants to pay the price to find out - so it'll hopefully remain a mystery.
Allowing a foreign enemy to murder your people is unacceptable - but the cost of war would be too high, except as a last resort. I will not forget or forgive either, but the North Korean goverment already had so much innocent blood on its hands that this didn't add much.