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Add to it that a large amount of south Korea is well within conventional Artillery range of the north including the capital. North Korea has stock piled conventional and chemical long range artillery And some Nuclear weapons.
There is concerns over the Actual stability of North Korea make no doubt about that but if they break down it would be the generals and top players battling for the crown the general population rising up is not likely most or if it did the standing army would come down on any protests like the wrath of god.
As to there conventional forces, yes in a standing conventional fight if Dprk vs ROK and or US forces the edge would go to the South and US but make no mistake the North knows that and would never let it remain conventional. The destruction on both sides would be tremendous with Seoul vaporized and massive amounts of civilian and military casualties as North Korea operates massive amounts of Infantry, Artillery and armor that may not be as cutting edge technology but is aimed at the theory of overwhelm and devastate.
 
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Confirmed NK get a variant of SS-N-25 named also KN-09 in more also confirmed existence of new missile boats Nongo class/SES. Number mentioned 6.
Exist also a new MB class designated "PBFG" announced same size and weapons but no Catamaran less large/broad, number 1+ ?
 
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Confirmed NK get a variant of SS-N-25 named also KN-09 in more also confirmed existence of new missile boats Nongo class/SES ...
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Yeppp ... seems so, and reportedly they tested this version - better known in the West as the Kh-35U or AS-20 'Kayak' - from their venerable H-5 bombers.

However I thought its designation is KN-01 !

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North Korean AF, 110000 personnel

Combat Aircrafts about 600 :
35 Mig-29S
36 Su-25
46 Mig-23
190 Mig-21/J-7
100 J-6
100 J-5/Mig-17
20 Su-7
40 H-5
40 Q-5
Very large but very old with museum pieces !

Location, one sqn have 12 aircrafts
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By the looks of it, I do not think that the North Koreans attach any importance or significance to Air Power. The most capable combat aircraft they have in terms of Air Superiority, is the MiG-29 and that too is an old one.

Either that, or they do not have the resources to revamp their air force.

If North Korea looked to modernize with around 250 MiG-35s, 100 Su-34s, 5 A-50Ms and 50 S-300PMU2s. That would be a deadly combination and would somewhat change the parameters of war, God forbid if that ever were to occur.

Whatever the reason, the lack of North Korean initiative on recapitalizing their air force, seems to put them at a serious disadvantage. Perhaps their thinking maybe the proximity factor. With the South Korean capital being within range of their artillery, is probably the reason why the North Koreans think that an air force upgrade is not needed.
 
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The Indigenous Aviation resources and industry of the North Koreans are severely lacking. Where they maintain production, licencing and development of Tanks, APC's, Submarines, Brown water Naval shipping, Small arms, missiles, artillery, WMD and a number of other defense systems. There Aviation industry is aborted.
They lack even small indigenous aircraft instead relying on imports primarily from Russia and China. There only Korean built Aircraft in service are 87 units of the MD500D Defenders American designed light scout/attack choppers licence manufactured in South Korea and then sold for commercial use to a German suppler who sold them to a Dummy corporation that imported them to North Korea where they were modified to carry Russian Stagger missiles, And that is the known extent of North Korean Aviation industry. Modifying and restoring aircraft for service in the DPRK Air force.
 
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New SSK

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Sinpo class build to Sinpo
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Sinpo class build to Sinpo
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The hull form for these "newer" N. Korean subs are still ancient by sub standards.

They are undoubtedly very noisy by today's standards and would never venture very far from shore.

That does not mean that they cannot be dangerous in those littoral areas...or that such a sub with a SRBM is also not a threat. it just means that they are old technology and would have a very short life span once they launched and reveled their position in any conflict.
 
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Chinese nuclear experts think that the nuclear threat posed by North Korea is much greater than previously thought.

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on Wednesday notes that “China’s top nuclear experts” have upped their threat assessments of North Korea’s nuclear weapons production. Per the report, which is based off comments made by those experts at a “closed-door meeting with U.S. nuclear specialists,” these Chinese experts perceived North Korea to pose a greater nuclear threat than even most contemporary U.S. assessments. The report comes not long after the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies released a new report suggesting that North Korea could, in an extreme scenario, possess up to 100 nuclear warheads by 2020 (if you missed it, Shannon Tiezzi and I spoke to Joel Wit, one of the authors of that report,
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The Journal’s report suggest that the latest Chinese estimates place North Korea’s active nuclear arsenal as of April 2015 at 20 warheads. This number is unconfirmed as no one outside of North Korea—not even China, Pyongyang’s erstwhile closest partner—knows the specifics of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. Interestingly, the report notes that the Chinese experts believe that North Korea is capable of producing sufficient amounts of weapons-grade uranium to “double its arsenal by next year.” That claim doesn’t quite line up with most studies of North Korea’s uranium program in the West. North Korea’s nuclear tests have all so far been plutonium-based devices, and while the country has long been known to have an interest in enriching uranium for use in a weapons program, there is considerable disagreement regarding the extent to which this program is operational or even viable. David Albright offers the most recent independent U.S. take on the Pyongyang’s progress on weapons-grade uranium.
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