Which fleet will they join? The East and North, since the South have 2 already?
nevermind, apparently 2 will join South and 2 will join East according to SDF thread.
The regime is potrayed as something from the darkest and deepest pit...thus that many countries are unwilling to touch it even with a 10 foot pole.
No, China is asking NK to be more self sustain, so that it actually has something to trade instead relying on foreign support, and its people can...
The famine wasn't caused by the US, but sanction didn't help either. I believe this is what he meant.
For China and South Korea yes. These countries would be afftected most if NK was to collapse.
What rest of the world? It's the North Korean government's obligation to feed its people or give its people the ability to feed themselves, they failed to some (great) extent.
I don't get it. Is China or someone blaming the US for famine? And if China is feeding the regime, then so is South...
Let North Korea go? Not gonna happen until Taiwan officially reunite with mainland, and US influence in the region decrease.
It's only good for the US strategically, while for China it loses a vital chess piece. Can China gamble that if the North were to unite with the South, the newly united...
In a full scale war could see hundreds of thousands of shells being fired. If you do the maths, that's about a thousand fold more damage than currently done...
Contrary to popular beliefs, China doesn't have that much control over North Korea.
If they do, then
1. NK today would be pseudo-communist and had or is undergoing economic reform, China have been pressing them for some time already
2. NK would not have developed nuclear weapons as it is...
How do missile based point defense stack up to CIWS?
I think smaller ships like this corvette is quite useful for coastal defense. While you have your larger ships engaging enemy planes, your corvettes could target incoming ASMs.
While smaller and cheaper, larger number of boats can be built...
They probably test the landing gear turning & braking, engines responsiveness and control surfaces movements. Not that I'd know but these are the only things possible to test on ground. I think they do do taxi runs to make sure the aircraft is ready to take flight and return, that is everything...