Defense Ready for Potential North Korean Attack
“North Korea is so impoverished it has not been able to renew arms that are outdated and degraded,” said Atsuhito Isozaki, a North Korean expert at Japan’s private Keio University. “Its conventional military is no match for those of Japan, South Korea or the U.S.”
Isozaki said the North’s shortage of oil has largely incapacitated its conventional military, which he said poses “virtually no threat” to neighboring countries although it is the world’s fourth-largest. Read more