An Iron Coffin: Inside North Korea’s Crazy Infiltration Submarines
An unusual tourist attraction outside the Olympic city of Gangneung tells a nightmare story – one that holds lessons for US war planners preparing strikes on North Korea.
Even so, special forces alone are not war winners – and the 28,500 GIs in Korea can draw on much recent experience fighting terrorists, including suicide bombers.
“[North Korean special forces] put more allied troops at risks, we would have to take more casualties because of their unwillingness to surrender,” said Dan Pinkston, a strategy expert and former US Air Force colonel who teaches at Troy University. “Our infantry and special forces would have to think about this, they would have to have special tactics – but they have experiences of fighting this kind of threat in the Middle East.”