SoKo manufacture its own shells, bullets, and arty guns and electronics. It also manufactures its own landmines and its own tanks. Now it is producing its own 4.5 gen fighter. It produces its own ships and submarines. No it is not over 60% imported. It is around 33%-40% imported, roughly along the same line as the Indian military is.
yep. and NoKo is 100% domestic made. If SoKo beats NoKo in a war without outside help militarily, it will be a first in human history - that an importer army has defeated an indegenous army in the industrial era.
ofcourse, this doesnt apply to India-pakistan because between the two its a race to who is a bigger importer. But its the same reason i will say India, if it fights China, will lose or be forced to make history.
And as a betting man, i do not like the odds of any war that involves 'do something no one has ever done before' to win.
This is why i push for substandard dehati desi maal over phoren maal.
Coz dehati desi maal has won over phoren import maal in wars in last 200 years - the reverse has never happened.
Also you do not understand the war scenario of NoKo vs SoKo.
The heart of SoKo economy is Seoul. As well as its population base. Thats about 40% of SoKo GDP and 30% of its population....and Seoul-Incheon megacity is like 25km from the border.
NoKo doesnt need sophisticated shit. They only need numbers. Because their doctrine is 'can you stop approx 5,000 tanks, 10,000 APCs and 5,000 artillery (of all kinds) marching 25kms ? coz if you cant, you lose as i blow up Seoul-Inchon'.
For THIS mission, what a poor nation needs, is quantity. Not quality. And that is exactly what NoKo has - shit tons of quantity of indegenously produced ww2 era crap.
That will suffer 50:1 losses, but its okay, coz they have 100:1 numerical odds and they dont need to manage supply lines of 100s of kms with ww2 vehicular logistics, they need to go the distance between Raj path in New Delhi and greater Noida.
its South korea who has to either match quantity or come up with fool-proof quality and there is no fool-proof quality of anything on planet earth - short of nuking your own territory - that will stop 20,000 vehicles of various khatara design to go 25kms.