Seoul would survive a North Korean attack; North Korea would not
by Tom Rogan | Sep 26, 2017, 9:33 AM
It is a common and generally unchallenged refrain that Seoul, capital of South Korea, is unacceptably vulnerable to North Korean artillery fire.
This thinking assumes that if North Korea attacked Seoul with artillery and missiles, it would inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties. But that isn't a given.
First off, at the tactical level, were the U.S. and South Korean militaries to anticipate an imminent North Korean attack on Seoul, their exigent mission would be the targeting and destruction of North Korean artillery systems. As a former South Korean Army general told the Korean Herald on Monday, the key to minimizing the potential destruction in Seoul is to strike both the Transporter Erector Launchers (TELs) that carry North Korean missiles, and their battlefield routes to the front line.
"The route is a fixed target like a tunnel or a bridge," said the general, "so we can detect and destroy it, then the TELs will end up at exposed launch sites. By concentrating on reconnaissance and airstrike assets, we can neutralize the remaining TELs."
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