After South Korea's Yoon Suk-yeol came to power, South Korea's attitude towards the United States has also become tougher. South Korea has also followed the United States in conducting a series of military exercises on the peninsula, Xi has made the atmosphere on the peninsula even more tense. Perhaps because of the support of the United States, South Korea has been making disrespectful remarks against China on the issue of Taiwan, and even threatened that China would not seize Taiwan by force.
At the same time, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin also met with the defense ministers of Japan and South Korea in South Korea during his visit to South Korea. It is precisely because of the appearance of the US Secretary of Defense that South Korea has the confidence to issue such a threat to China.
According to South Korea's ** report, South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-hyun has unashamedly and publicly declared that if the Korean Peninsula goes to war again, North Korea will be "annihilated", and South Korea will unify the peninsula. And in the meantime, if North Korea wants to help North Korea again, South Korea will not give up, and South Korea will inevitably retaliate against it.
Isn't this a warning to China and Russia?The last time, during the Korean War in the fifties, the only one who supported North Korea against the United States and South Korea was China and the Soviet Union. During the Korean War, the Soviet Union provided it with a large amount of military equipment, although it did not directly send troops. Although Russia has been torn apart, South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-hyun is referring to Russia, the person who once inherited most of the Soviet legacy.
The DPRK defense minister's remarks are indeed somewhat arrogant, but they also show that he has not clearly understood the situation in front of him. It is conceivable that South Korea's land area, as well as the South Korean Army, all rely on the "army pot" to eat, and in the face of China and Russia, the two international powers, what else can South Korea do?Not to mention the Russian and Chinese armies, which could cross North Korea and launch a fierce attack on South Korea, which is not too big and could well be overwhelmed by a tank formation.
At the same time, does South Korea really think that the United States will go all out to help South Korea if the situation deteriorates?If it was the fifties, the United States and the Soviet Union were still vying for control of the West, and the Soviet Union would no longer have the energy to manage the Far East. At that time, New China had just been established, and the United States was not very interested in the strength of the People's Liberation Army, which was why the United States dared to launch an attack on the Korean Peninsula.
But now, the entire peninsula is surrounded by China's navy, land, air force, and Chinese rocket artillery, and if the United States sends troops to challenge the peninsula, it will be a complete defeat. In the fifties, a millet and a rifle could push heavily armed Americans to the negotiating table. But now?The People's Liberation Army's ** is no longer what we used to be, and many of the equipment is already the most advanced in the world
Even leaving aside China, Russia, and the United States, will South Korea have the ability to defeat North Korea on its own and ultimately achieve peace on the peninsula?The author still has many questions about this. In terms of force, in terms of morale, South Korea's army simply cannot be compared with the religious forces of North Korea, and perhaps with a salvo from North Korea, Seoul will be razed to the ground. What's more, North Korea also has a variety of tactical missiles that can carry out precise long-range attacks on all military facilities, airfields, and ports in South Korea.
In addition, the DPRK has a "big mushroom", and I believe that if the DPRK is really provoked, the DPRK will not put a "big mushroom" on the South Koreans.
All in all, South Korea's threat to China, as well as its threat to the Korean Peninsula, may be a kind of goodwill towards the United States, an attitude towards the United States' "little followers", but if South Korea really does this, I am afraid they will not have such courage.