South Korea fears the increased military capacity of Pyongyang

A report by the Ministry of Defense of South Korea, reports that Pyongyang is preparing for a large-scale conflict, due to the increase and renewal of its military equipment and for the increasing number of hours of training of its armed forces. The report notes that the number of staff engaged in training and military exercises, has doubled in the summer season, greatly increasing the capacity of military attack on North Korean Army. Pyongyang would have also increased the potential missile with the installation of new launch pads, raising three hundred units launching ramps, which came as about 5,100. The arsenal North Korea is formed, for the majority of mobile devices, with a considerable flexibility and many have a range sufficient to reach the South Korean capital, Seoul, which form a metropolitan area inhabited by over twenty million people, located at a distance of less than 70 kilometers from the border with North Korea. Despite the dialogue between the two countries are maintaining the same level of non-communication, the government of Pyongyang did not reach the usual threats, that accompany the exercises; However, Seoul is concerned about this growing arsenal of North Korea, because it is a real threat for the state of South Korea. should be noted that although it is conventional weapons, the report does not appear to be any references to atomic arsenal in possession of Pyongyang, this increased potential, coupled with the unpredictability of the North Korean regime, raises a lot of apprehension in Seoul. In addition, the particular time that is experiencing North Korea, where the dictator Kim Jong-un is absent from the public eye by an unusually long time, this suggests a phase of instability for the country of North Korea. Usually in these uncertain times the regime responds with egregious actions towards the outside, which result in nuclear threats and displays of military force, which always includes some rocket fired towards the southern part of the peninsula. These acts of force, often serve, even to compel other countries, China first of all, to make aid to support an economy in crisis, chronic, often struggling with food shortages. Along with the exercises conducted in a big way, such as those in the report of the Defense Ministry in Seoul, may also occur the internal regulations of the Pyongyang regime, where, usually, the dictator gets rid of opponents, or to those who believe such political duty. The prolonged absence from the public stage of the country's leader, justified with various diseases of which Kim Jong-un would be affected, is a coincidence not to be underestimated, if associated with military maneuvers. The caste of the armed forces remains the most important, in a country with a totalitarian regime, but it is also the greatest ally of the supreme leader, as its operational arm, both as a threat on the international scene, both for internal settling of accounts. But the news that comes from what is called the hermit country do not allow more than conjecture in the presence of facts that you can only give an interpretation of past events. There remains the concern of South Korea to reach out to a period of instability, which is reflected concern in the United States, fearful of seeing a rise further in front on which to fight. Washington and Seoul, on this point, continue a long collaboration and the preventive strategy designed by the two governments is to prepare a missile shield that can neutralize the rockets of Pyongyang. The two executives so they would be considering the possibility of integrating the South Korea-US missile defense system, which Seoul has not, so far acceded and which may involve arms control in South Korea by American satellites. The reasons for this choice, presumably, were those not irritate the nearby North Korea to avoid raising a tension always present; if Seoul decides to join, it will mean that the conditions will be deemed to have changed, but Pyongyang will have one more reason to vindicate his race to the increase of its armaments.