No way that the US would not make North Korea a giant glass parking lot as soon as the first nuke hit a US base.

You cannot convince me that the strength of both South Korea and the U.S weren't severely downplayed for a more interesting video

I usually enjoy these videos but I think it’s ridiculous to even speculate that random people in hazmat suits could walk around Seoul spraying lethal biochemical agents without immediately being noticed, questioned, stopped, arrested and interrogated. Especially considering these are supposed to be devastatingly effect weapons, you’d imagine that would be noticed pretty quickly.

Disclaimer...this video was produced by North Korea.

This video significantly overestimates NK's capabilities. As seen from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, even an overmatched defender can put up a good fight against a much stronger opponent, yet SK, despite the defender in this scenario, is a much more capable military power than NK (and probably even Ukraine for that matter). The problem is, the cost on infrastructure and civilian lives lost. But in terms of actually winning a potential war, even without significant US assistance, SK should be able to win, especially in a defensive war. The scenario of NK taking over Seoul and having any agency on its own future as a nation is extremely unlikely. Sure, like the video said, NK has a huge army - 4th largest in the world. SK is also huge - 8th largest. And their air force, navy, armored vehicles, artillery, all their equipment, are all extremely modern and cutting edge, compared to NK fielding mostly WW2 and cold war tech. And SK's soldiers are well fed, well educated, fighting for their homeland instead of a dictator, and have better morale than their NK counterparts. NK's only advantage is nukes, which they don't even have a reliable delivery method for right now.

The South Korean military is much stronger than perceived in this video. Also it's not that easy for any North Korean to just walk in South Korea with a bunch of nerve gasses or other lethal toxins. What also is forgotten is the presence of the United States 7th fleet. This fleet has a huge arsenal of weapons to completely decimate North Korea. Furthermore it is still up to debate whether the North Koreans are really capable of reaching the American mainland with their few nuclear warheads. And as we speak, the same American military is working on both scram-jet hyper-sonic missiles and super powered lasers to shoot down any incoming ICBM. In all honest ways I think the chances for North Korea are much slimmer than this video suggests. Let's also not forget that the US Military does not publish all it's secrets, so who knows.

Not to be biased, but this is so fantastical it’s almost a comedy

Being that I am an ex tanker and was on rotation to Korea at one point, I will tell you there are a lot more than 50 abrams tanks in south Korea at any given time.

I've never seen such an overestimation of North Korea in any video and assumed incredible ineptitude of every perceived enemy of NK XD The Russia-Ukraine war shows that Russia's greatest weakness would be themselves, North Korea would fare no better. The massive artillery bombardment is fairly an accurate description of what NK would initially do however that's assuming all artillery pieces are well maintained and crewed with trained men. That's a lot of if's to be honest.

Clearly they must be talking of an alternate universe where the US and South Korea don’t take Kim seriously

If NK uses Nukes, NK won't last as long as this video.

North Korea's logistics and actual military strength has already been commented on at length, but it's worth noting that mobilization for this hypothetical war would be impossible to hide. Seoul would still get flattened by conventional artillery, but there's no way the world is getting caught with its pants down.

I‘m not one for underestimating military capacity, but I do feel NK was overestimated here.

Having been stationed in Korea I can tell you that you grossly underestimate the U.S. Military prep and plans.

this is 7 months ago, US now have B-21 raider , the most advance stealth bomber and its also nuclear capable..

NK is like that one kid in class that wants a fight and ends up crying

I normally agree with what you guys say in these videos but I honestly think you underestimate the USA and South Korea military power and way overestimated North Korea. Nk people are starved, lack proper training, and there equipment is outdated/unmaintained, a key thing we are seeing play out in Ukraine with Russias "massive" military.

Fallout from a nuclear attack on South Korean cities would likely affect the Chinese coastline. China would respond much faster than the USA. Invading immediately. North Korea would become another province of China within a week. Also, airbases in Japan would be able to respond to an attack on Seoul in about an hour. I like the video, but I think you guys gave too much credit to the North Korean army.

North Korea watching this video like “write that down, write that down”! 😂😂😂

"What North Korea vs. USA War Would Actually Look Like" *South Korea becomes an island*

Former Air Force Sergeant here, we can have all our US bomb birds in the Air and in the South Pacific in a day or two! This is a plan that we practice twice a year! Our Navy would do shore bombardment from afar with cruise missiles and decimate NK easily!

Can you imagine still being naive enough to think that, after Russia’s show in Ukraine, the North Koreans using similar (but older and even more poorly maintained) equipment would be able to sustain such a cogent attack? In 2021 this would have been an interesting exercise. In 2022, post Ukraine invasion, this just seems laughably over optimistic.

Thanks for putting ideas in people's minds.

The biggest mistake any adversary country could make is to underestimate US and South Korean military capabilities. The opening salvo from North Korea supposes millions of South Koreans killed, although highly unlikely, A more likely scenario if that actually succeeded is the complete obliteration of North Korea by South Korean nuclear strike assets, that only the most naive would believe doesn't exist. Plus, US nuclear submarines stationed off North Korea would strike within minutes. The thought that North Korea could actually destroy a US military base is unlikely. Any attack on a US military asset in that region would be met by a swift, comprehensive and terminating attack. This video describes a slow response by the US and South Korea which is simply unrealistic. Let's face it, North Korea would be receiving a devastating response including tactical nuclear weapons within minutes of any hostile action from them - and they know it.

This has to be one of the least realistic "what if" videos I've ever watched. The more I watch the more I am baffled. This is like an idea for a video game. I had to double check this video wasn't put out on April 1st as a joke.

Fairly certain that any use of nuclear weapons against overseas US military assets would result in a quick call to China advising them to close their windows and get the washing in as their neighbours are about to have a massive BBQ.

There's a story about Soviet troops in the Winter War. After finally breaking Finnish lines, the starved Soviets stopped to eat soup and the Fins regrouped causing to soviet assault to break. I'd imagine it may be similar here.

Although the video is very inaccurate and super optimistic for North Korea, it’s still entertaining to watch.

I really enjoy this channel. Always has very interesting content. However, the reasoning behind this video seems highly favored for NK. If US troops and civilians, not to mention SK people, were killed by biological or nuclear weapons, the US would obliterate NK within hours. Both short range tactical and ICBM nuclear missiles likely would be launched. The reasoning would be to prevent further loss of US and SK life. I believe the US and SK have war gamed this scenario extensively to prevent exactly what you are describing. And I can't imagine China allowing NK to do anything like this.

bro just said that china,usa,south korea, abd JAPAN are going to struggle against north korea. Their own people would not defend their country

POV you watch the first 30 seconds using auto play 💀

The dislikes are from Kim Jong UN's many accounts

Absolutely best case scenario for the North

This scenario was pretty good up until the point where North Korea freely used nukes on US forces but for some unfathomable reason the US did not immediately respond in kind especially since it is indicated that China has broken ties with North Korea. At the very least the US would use tactical nukes to hold off the massive North Korean assault across the DMZ.

This is the first one I watched. Hope the others on this channel are better thought out. 😂

We always think aliens will be hostile. They know eventually we will destroy ourselves

I appreciated that the often overlooked likelihood that China would come down against North Korea rather than save them. North Korea is of rather limited usefulness to China and if they stepped out of line enough they would quickly become more useful as a diplomatic win by being crushed. To put it succinctly: China would LOVE to tell the world "call Beijing not DC when there is trouble" and putting an swift end to a rogue state would be a strong position to make this argument from, especially if they press a comparison to US action in the middle east.

The only outcome that matters is that the US would wipe the floor with north korea no questions asked.

Kim Jong Un after watching the intro: “WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN”

Had no idea infographics was sponsored by the DPRK.

to the 10 percent of people who found this have a good day

The last time I’ve seen the NK military overestimated like this, was when the ‘red dawn” remake came out hahaha

Pretty cool vid

at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of the buffet.

There's no way the Norths forces would succeed in such a push. There are many reasons, a combination of strategies developed by allied forces to deal with mass assault of troops, and the lack of North Korean logistics capability mean they would achieve little. They have no modern equipment, and access to barely any parts. It's thought that they dont have even hours of fuel in reserve for all their airforce let alone armoured vehicles if they are even functional. Their troop morale is low and they lack reliable equipment. North Korea is a tiny poor nation with very little manpower and manufacturing to go with it. All they have is their lmited range low yield nukes and standoff artillery aimed at Seoul. Size isn't everything, 1 for 1 comparisons do not work here, the souths army is more than a match because it's capability is high. Yes their army is large, but this ignores many weaknesses inherent in North Koreas armed forces. Communications are easily disrupted due to the small size of the country and age of the technology used, they also lack redundancy for powering these systems. The US would target the power grids, jam communications and generally ruin the Norths ability to issue orders - they can do this very quickly and no doubt have it all preplanned, thus the entire enemy force will be left confused with no initiative hours into the war. Most of the US operations in the beginning will be about sowing chaos.

North Korea: fires first nuke at the US US: OH HAIL NAH

Imagine releasing a contagious fatal virus in the country next to you💀

I am a Korean-American, my grand aunt was literally kidnapped into North Korea and my grandpa had severe ptsd from fighting. North Korea has done nothing but bad for our whole country and should be punished.

If there's one thing that we've learned from Russia's bungling in Ukraine it's that logistics are paramount. The North Koreans may have a lot of artillery but I wonder how easily they'd be able to resupply them.

cool but like in the thumbnail are we not gonna talk about the goofy placement of the eotech on the m4

North Korean missiles going towards their targets would hear. "Would you intercept me? Id intercept me.."

So let me get this straight North Korea (22) Vs USA (1) China (3) South Korea (12) Japan (7) And North still win? Oooh this must be the April Fools video we didn't get, but then again rankings are just numbers, the video was great as always but far from reality

Iraq had the 4th largest standing army in the world in 1991 with Cold War era toys much like North Korea still has now, if not better, as well as chemical weapons and a battle hardened military... Yet, this would be even more of a turkey shoot than that ever was.

You’re making North Korea look much more confident than they really are

NATO: am I a joke to you??

North Korea wouldn't last long! Just look at how terrible Russia is doing! And that's without NATO forces joining the fight!

North Korea has 40-50 nukes The USA has 5000 nukes. Enough said

Remember when we mobilized like half the US military in Korea just to cut down a tree on the DMZ?

North koreas nukes are like frag grenades that were soaked in water overnight

The one part of this that is very real is the amount of artillery NK has. But that also makes for a target rich environment for CAS type aircraft. I'm sure if I realize this, US military officials have to and are prepared to bring forth these air assets. The other thing to note is that NK does not have large reserves of food, in fact they struggle to feed their population. I don't think NK could sustain a push into SK without capturing food resources in SK. Kind of pointless if you have contaminated those sources. You also create problems when you contaminate territory you want to traverse with nuclear fallout. You are essentially going to deny yourself that battle space for a period of three weeks and will have to concentrate your forces into fewer corridors. This turns into a target rich environment for American air assets.

I'm sorry, but you honestly believe the US would not protect their bases with the bomb? Especially after it's been hit 1st. Attack subs in the area will decimate any ground forces with cruise missiles, and so would the air force. This is at best a best scenario for North Korea

In the thumbnail he’s holding the mag to aim 😂

Before I watch this...it would be over QUICK. No nukes would be used. Your video on if somehow they had an ICBM to reach our west coast was good on intercepting it.

You realize the moment NK used a single nuclear device the entire country would just be glassed instantly right?

Man The USA is built different

I thought I heard it all but dropping smallpox in a bomb is crazy sounds pretty crazy

I feel this video isn’t giving the SK military enough credit and is under appreciating the power of the US naval and air assets

It ends with the fall of Pyongyang in less than a year and American troops on Winnie the Poo’s boarder. 🇰🇷🇹🇼🇺🇦

This channel constantly reminds me how little you know about military matters.

I love how this video basically has the US just stand there and do nothing while NK mows them down.

the 3 minute war.

The US should reestablish SEATO. It should consist of (at least) US, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia.

I love it how each section turnes into "the NK air force is decimated, but it overcomes the Japanese, US and SK air forces." Or "the artillery has been decimated, but the NK guns make it impossible for the US and SK SF to make any headway". Are you out of your mind? You want realism? The first wave has been expected, and is stopped as has been US doctorine since the Korean War started, then the turkey shoot with the migs begins which would already give the US air superiority. Then all of a sudden, 4 nukes somehow make it through all of the defenses and THEN the US fights back? You know nothing john snow.

That’s a great question. What happens when Chinese and American SF collide on the same mission but for different reasons?

6:05 After EXACTLY 75 years.

I don’t agree with the chemical attacks. Anyone whose spent time in Korea and the DMZ understands this won’t happen. North Korea will have to gain supplies from these large cities for logistics reasons. Doesn’t make sense to spread chemical weapons and risk killing your own soldiers that are needed for the push South. Time is of the essence for North Korea to take the country.

One thing not mentioned is the physical state of the average North Korean soldier. From what I have seen and read, lack of food in the country has resulted in many soldiers suffering from malnutrition. How long would they last in any sort of hard, sustained fighting, especially when U.S. & South Korean forces would be hammering their supply lines? Also, I have to wonder what kind of condition NK vehicles and aircraft are in. The majority of their weapons systems were considered modern back when Lyndon Johnson was president. With all the sanctions on that country, I have to figure the spare part situation is not very good.

Any way there was another laughing the entire video? Surely can't be only me lol 😂 No talk of ninjas.... I'm sad... 😢

This is basically if the Korean War happens in modern times

This entire scenario is basically dependent on whether or not the North Koreans can get undercover agents in the South Korea without being detected. Not only that but it also is extremely unlikely. Despite all of the saber rattling and all of the posturing North Korea has only one major goal. And that is simply to survive. They won’t admit it but the North Koreans know that they cannot engage the United States in battle. It’s more than likely that if an operation like this were to take place it would literally spell V complete and total destruction of North Korea. Also if they launch nuclear weapons I highly doubt the United States would have any real reservations about firing nuclear weapons back. If anything the United States would probably fire a single missile which by the way usually carry multiple war heads and most likely hit certain cities in the like in North Korea. For instance the capital city of Pyongyang and the port city of Incheon.

While this scenario would depict what would happen if nukes weren't used in retaliation, in reality, the US would respond with nuclear attacks. Pyongyang would be turned into a radioactive crater immediately as the first target along with known strategic sites. This doesn't even count the unknown weapons that were possibly deployed for the SDI initiative that could be aboard US spy satellites, submarines, and in South Korean bases. Plus, even with the million man army the North claims to have, they have zero battle experience, zero war experience, and zero invasion experience. Most would be poorly trained at best, poorly equipped with limited supplies, and even worse, morale in the north, from what is known, is some of the lowest of any standing army. Most members of their military are more focused on civil and agriculture work with a vast majority taking a military role just to get their next rationed meal. Against a superior fighting force, or even a mediocre, they'd be wiped out quickly and most deserting. Most probably would quickly desert as soon as they got across the DMZ alive, and most deserting would be instantly killed by their own men, which would further thin their numbers of effectiveness. None of these known factors work in the north's favor. Numbers of people don't win wars. Neither do nuclear weapons and threats. And trading Seoul for LA... That's a far fetched scenario because even with the missile systems the north has acquired over the years from Iran, most of those are out of date and ineffective against modern missile defense systems. Their own efforts have been based on getting lucky at best, because their tests have all been inconclusive or even incoherent as far as if they could have a successful missile program. Factor all this in, and chances are, whatever pipe dream Kim Jong Un would think he had of victory against South Korea would evaporate within hours.

You forgot NATO reacting. I think you under estimate the US.

The odiferous atmosphere of feline in my home could rival mustard gas

I get you guys wanting to make an entertaining fight for us all but... you have no understanding of anti-missile systems, or naval operations..

This is giving North Korea two much credit

Nice info ,sahahahaha

Seal team six sneaks into Kim Jong Un’s palace with poisoned Twinkies. War is over in 36 minutes.

Wile E. Coyote has better luck with rockets than North Korea. I think we'd have this in the bag.

Wasn't this the same channel that posted a Russia invades Ukraine video like 5 years ago?

If only the US had something like a movable airfield that was heavily armed. Something like a huge boat that could hold 70-80 aircraft? This is a hot steaming pile of BS.

Why don't you bring up the Apache units that are based in Korea my brother was based there for a year in a support unit

This video doesn't mention our rapid deployment bases like the 82nd Airborne Division that is capable of dropping paratroopers on the ground, or the 101st Airborne Division able to do Air Assault maneuvers.

The South Korean Army is one of the worlds strongest and most determined. Also, they're not malnourished and they don't live in constant fear.

Overestimation of NK and underestimation of SK and USA. The US would have to use nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear strike by NK. It would send a terrible message if they didn't. Any tinpot dictator with nukes would think they can use them without fear of retaliation. Bad job on this scenario,

Well If you've thought of it, the military think-tanks thought of it years ago, and have come up with an answer to it . GUARANTEED!!

I think a video of a steam roller running over a grape would be a more accurate video

This assumes that NK could carry on operation for more than 3 days without their troops passing out from starvation.

Giving NK "special" forces far too much credit.

You seriously think North Korean paratroopers could reach any military bases before getting blown out of the sky?

This was a UN war. Soldiers from Great Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Colombia, Ethiopia, South Africa, New Zealand, Türkiye, Greece, Thailand, Philippines and Luxembourg sent fighting units.