Which Korea has a stronger army? Can North Korea conquer the South? 

I love how there’s a category just labelled ‘hopeless’

North and South Korea, shortly after the DMZ is established: “Sir that area is demilitarized.” “How about, we militarize the area around it!”

“What if us forces just left?” Kurds: “first time?”

Nuclear attack: UN: That's illegal US: That's illegal Every single nation: *wAnT my tRoOPs?*

Vatican City vs Monaco please !

I like how you put in "hopeless" on those J5 and migs XD

There is a terrifying quote I took from someone, "When you have more soldiers than the enemy's munitions.".

I always love the ending about peace

6:52 "with nukes, this scenario goes even more fantastic" - Binkov 2017

I have my doubts how effective their nukes would be. If they land and blow up sure, but making it to targets would be hard. Binkov himself said out of the 60 they have, only a few can even be fired like that. The further into the south they go, the less chance it will actually impact.

_Did you win the war?_ South korea: yes. _What did it cost?_ South korea: North korea shred my cities down to its last atom.

I think the north Korean strategy is mass civilian casulities with chemical and bioweapons lnto border cities like Seoul. The military has no chance of taking on the south In open combat so that is what leads me to this thinking

Hey everyone! We are making a series of history of warfare kind of videos on the Graphy app. We call it War Transformed: share.graphyapp.co/MHNG So if that's your thing, if you like us talking about history in general, how tech influenced development, how certain new weapons influenced warfare - feel free to check it out!

binkov: “marginal north korean victory” me who lives in seoul: “fk”

South Korea has I believe in its advantages, higher quality training facilities and exercises, better leader training, higher quality food and exercise for its soldiers, and this is very important Combat experience, South Korea 🇰🇷 has lots of modern combat experience form the Vietnam war and various UN peacekeeping missions.

So much more detailed than the speculation I always hear in the media but have always questioned. Well researched, well presented. Well done!

Just some suggestions to consider (just making one of these would be awesome!) Japan vs S. Korea Chile vs Peru (kinda want to really see this one) Thailand vs Malaysia Israel vs Turkey (or Saudia Arabia) Russia vs EU China vs India Germany vs Switzerland Japan vs Russia Brazil vs Venezuela UAE vs Qatar Algeria vs Morocco AND... Retro War Scenario: USSR vs NATO (1983) - would be cool to see too.

Kazakhstan vs Whole World

One problem with this analysis is that South Korea's army size includes the US being there. If the US was to pull out, South Korea would increase the size & power of it's military.

Support South Korea from UK 🇰🇷🇬🇧

Ok, so I've watched a few of these before and enjoyed them. At a time when I was much more sober and less cynical, I enjoyed these and now I seem to respect them much more. The research and the thought gone into these is just amazing. Knowing the military forces on each as well as the nuclear knowledge is fantastic. I'm ecstatic that you are doing so well on YT and hope you only get bigger than this.

Ajit pai vs net neutrality

Just in case , we are ready for an other war. Respect and Love for my brother land S.Korea

i'v seen many of your videos. love your work! ty

this why binkov is better than any other camparisation channel. researched, well delivered, and neutral. Hope this channel goes big

I remember seeing North Korean MiG-21 over Pyongyang back when I went to NK. I am pretty sure that they are still working on "improving the design", at least that's what I was told.

0:06" Hello there i, commander Binkov present to you"

this is kind of funny topic. actually south korea has ability to make nuke as you can see south korea is one of the best countries using nuke energy for energy sources. but can't make nuke weapon since south korea are not like north korea because they are in position where they can lose alot by having this weapon. north korea has nothing to lose so they are not even hearing what all developed countries says to give up that nuke weapon

I’m surprised not a lot of people talk about this, do a USA Vs Europe Compare USA to Europe Military

sweden vs finland

Basicly Red Army Choir vs K Pop

Binkovs da man. Always fun to watch what if videos.

Well good to see that this comment section have no Stalinist prising North Korea.

What a great channel, sweet intro too.

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!!!!

Kim Jong Un wants to know your location

1960s Warsaw Pact vs NATO Please like I really want to see this one 😁

Do Japan vs. a bowl of Ramen

The low flying nuke plane scenario reminds me of Dr. Strange Love. " Ill drop that nuke even if it hairlips everyone at bear creek" funny movie

6:47에 보면 북한 측에서 핵 전력을 안 쓴다고 가정할 때 남한이 당연히 이긴다고 결론을 냈음.그렇지만 그 이후에 북한이 핵 전력을 써야만 북한이 marginal victory(미미한, 의미없는) 승리를 거둔다고 했음. 결국 이 동영상은 남한이 이긴다고 설명하고 있음. 마지막 부분만 보고 북한이 이긴다는 말은 하지 마시길

Sudan vs South Sudan

I mean this is implying that North Koreas nuclear missiles and bombs don't explode in flight, or on their launch platform. I hear they have a 60% failure rate in missile launching. And lets just say they have 100 nukes. By that number only 40 are workable. Of those 40, how many will be subject to successful anti-measures? How many will actually hit their intended target? Accuracy of the weapons is another concern for North Korea. But Binkov, you are forgetting two other important factors as well - North Koreas stockpile of chemical and biological weapons. How do they affect the battle? And how long does this war last until there is a clear victor?

North Korea: spend millions and makes nukes to have more of an advantage instead of having tanks Belikov: WITHOUT NUKES

FBI: Hello sunshine, now Binkov tell us all secret millitary locations of North Korea

North Korea VS Japan Russia VS NATO Mexico vs USA Italy VS France Spain VS France

I'd say south will win because south have a well fed troops instead of North, they're forced to do war without food being fed to them and North Koreans might rebel/escape from NK when the war broke out cuz of dictatorship and that would give the south an advantage.

Make a part 2 pls! With current capabilities

Good information in these vids but I wish the speed was about 1/2, with more explanation and context.

Denmark Vs Sweden!!!

Vietnam vs Thailand

He should do this again in the next few years. Korea is building an arsenal ship, an aircraft carrier, as well as 9 more AEGIS destroyers.

독도 색깔 칭찬합니다!

Sweden vs Finland Croatia vs Serbia USA vs Canada Chile vs Bolivia Romania vs Hungary

CSTO vs NATO!

Hey I love your vids I always watched them and I had 1 question. How do you know all of this

North Korea doesn't even have enough food to give them to the soldier Support South Korea from Turkey

good analysis. still, I wonder how much the people in NK are actually devoted to the system. are they really brainwashed, or are they just waiting for a moment of weakness to stand up? there is no doubt that NK has horrible old and useless military material, but the sheer numbers of possible Partisans in that kind of difficult landscape would be a nightmare to fight against

Brazil vs Venezuela!! 🇧🇷 vs 🇻🇪 PLS

5:36 South Korea came back heavy 😭

We may have a part two on our hands

He will do Europe vs Russia next!

I've always wondered why the u.s. and South Korea mention that they know about the underground tunnels. Why wouldn't you just keep that a secret go in and put some type of explosives on support beams all through it and if a war happened wait until they have a decent amount of troops tanks a acps and other weapons going through the tunnel and just before they hit the other side explode all the ordinance.

That fa-50 fighters has brand new radar and amraam missiles.

It would certainly be an interesting war to observe, that's for sure. All those 1950's/60's-era planes going up against each other. F5's taking on MiG-17's in the 21st century - crazy!

England vs Rest of U.K.

North Korea needs some Freedom™

I would love to see citations for the troop, materiel counts etc in these videos

God Bless (both) Korea... no more war... they are brothers

Nuclear war is more awesome? Damn Binkov you need to chill

Northkorea vs korea (=japan ) I have to defend my lover living in Korea with full power.

Many people overlook this fact. The difference in military power between South Korea and North Korea is so great that S.Korea can occupy North Korea in one day. But North Korea has nuclear and that's hindering our unification.

Korean war 2 would not go NK way. The modern SK is not the 1950s force. They have modern tanks, planes, US backing and training. Yeah....

Comrade Binkov, California vs Texas please. I’m betting on Texas, but it would be an interesting fight.

Morocco vs Spain

Imagine being a North Korean solder and hearing a Samsung ringtone for the first time. And 5 mins later a barrage of 152mm

So it's 1970's Soviet Russia military VS 1990's America military?

Korea versus Korea, uh oh

Two north Koreans disliked this video.

This guy's intro is the greatest.......

When life seems harsh I must remind myself I don't work on a North Korean submarine,

Even without MMA I think the SK army still has the micro and macro advantage.

I love Korean war scenario without foreign intervention.

no winner north korea, winner country SOUTH KOREA love korea from turkey 🇹🇷🇹🇷❤🇰🇷🇰🇷

Does having double the size of military personnel count if the majority of them immediately surrender / defect?

Western vs eastern

I totally understand that the point of this channel is to present a thought experiment devoid of external meddling or politics, but it's surprisingly hard to ignore the human aspect here. Would the North launch a nuke, knowing the consequences? I feel like it's virtually impossible to conceive of a 1-on-1 battle here.

good but you missed an important anti-ballistic missile asset of South Korea, it's latest 'destroyer' (cruiser) class includes AEGIS radar and vertical launched anti-aircraft missiles with capabilities against both ballistic missiles and cruise missiles...X

I dont know what happened in the last years, but for example 10 years ago many large cities (we are talking here about cities with several hundred thousand people!) were without electricity for weeks, North Korea is putting by far the largest part of their money into the military, and maybe even more incl. the "secret" rocket, nuclear and maybe bio or chem-weapons programs, but already the 25% of the GDP are crazy, not 25% of the budget... the whole GDP! Thats by far the worlds largest... I think from the budget much more than 50% are going into the military sector, and also incomes from the not so legal income North Korea has (Woman, workers for southern company which don't get paid, the state gets the money, they get points and maybe can buy chocolate or coffee or other things they can't otherwise for working at least 12 hours in special zones in the border area... and they are proud to serve the godlike kim 3.0, the last time I heard of such a system is from East-German workers building the pipelines in Western-Siberia and other parts of the Soviet Union, they also could buy the goods which were only available against western currency in special shops), however 25% of the GDP into military but still there were shortages of oil, spare parts, pilots are not well enough trained, same like the ship crews, as the draftees don't cruise around with fuel hungry and old engines, they also were the last country which used steam locomotives, and as fuel they used old car tires for a group of locomotive-fans which travelled to north korea, a camera team joined them, they paid over 2000€ per person only to enter the country and this already with connections (the one guy was from east-germany and worked for the stasi, later they interviewed a german speaking north korean old man in pjöngjang, Military budget and fuel...I remember that I did read China gave North Korea 2 million tons of aviation and jet fuel for free because oil price was low and they support them (its a puffer for China and Russia, so no US troops in Korea at their border), after that they increased training flights, on their own they couldn't "waste" fuel and spare parts for training... also most secret made videos I saw showed men which were pushing a vehicle which had no fuel or the engine was broken and they were on the "roads" (as said only very little is paved, a few cars per hour sometimes only cross these roads but very large amount of people clean it from snow...-15°C and colder and people are doing "ice fishing" if you move away from pjöngjang because they are hungry, in the 90's they searched in old coal areas for pieces of coal and died eat anything, and unlike africa the cold makes it really bad, what can you expect from such a country? without nuclear missiles it would be like all the poor african states, just that they even don't accept help except goods, but no foreign doctors or other helpers... and who sends the most food to North Korea? The US and South Korea... China needs to import food itself, so if China gives anything than they need to import more food from other countries, in most cases being the US, its a privilege to live in pjöngjang...old and sick people are send away, workers from other regions which increased coal output are allowed to visit pjöngjang because only here a few modern things for recreation exist, (its strictly forbidden for film any north korean military for the few visitors which only can move with a guide... only in their hotel they are alone, but the guide is in the hotel too and some journalists said they heard in the only hotel for people from the west they installed bugs to listen what is said... and one reporter showed the TV... 1 station, and after the news... a problem, 0 stations :P The Hotel was build during better times under Kim 1.0 I guess for visitors also from the European Iron Curtain states and other friendly states, its extrem empty, always much more people who are working there than guests, and they have installed an unusual strong diesel-generator system so that the building can run on its own for days...thats also the reason why they constructed so much tram-lines... they dont need diesel... and thats is already with chinese support (if we take away US support for the South than any Chinese, Russian etc. support for the North too), the coal industry which could at least provide enough energy so that even other cities than pjöngjang would have power at least for the most time are hard to realize as they spend all the money into their large amount of old tanks for example... but even much worse than in the military even the guides could not hide the shortage of motorized vehicles and/or diesel fuel, although they already showed a extreme modern farmer "union" (that system is really not comparable to ours, a few years before the docu they were allowed to work a bit together and sell a very small part of their food, later with chinese/russian help they got a bit larger number of fertilizers, fuel and vehicles to the important farm areas and allowed them greater amounts to sell on the north korean market and china provided cheap heavy vehicles for that farmers through the state, so that always Kim 3.0 gets the "thanks" and not China, so maybe it improved a bit in food and maybe bio fuel, but not serious enough, nazi germany had much more fuel reserves when they started the attack against Poland (on normal use of all 3 main forces using also morale bombing on warsaw and by the kriegsmarine in coastal areas it was less than 30 days total, high quality submarine and aviation fuel even a bit less, and the US did send for example 500 tons of an important chemical to produce 95 octane and higher fuels in the "Hydrierwerke" to I.G. Farben and Leuna only hours before France/UK declared war to Germany. THATS business...

most of those tanks have a very short effective range on their main Cannon. Those K2 could sit there and pick off a couple every minute three times that distance or more and not have to worry about return fire. Plus that armors pretty weak on those pt-76 those things would get destroyed

india-china

These are so interesting

I agree with this scenario, all except for 1 point. The Size of the North Korean Army, most of it like you stated is comprised of conscripts, true, however if North Korea violated the ceasefire with South Korea and reignited the war with them, you'd probably see alot of mutiny as morale in North Korea is not that great thanks to decades of sanctions, militarized opression, forced labour etc etc. Youd probably be looking at a 1/4 or maybe a 1/3 of their forces turning on the North Korean regime, so not also would they be fighting a technologically superior military with greater capabilities and power projection they would also be trying to tackle a pretty large scale civil war and because most of the people fighting will have military training, courtesy of the regime itself, youd be looking at a very rapid defeat for North.

Do Germany vs Russia (Modern-day)

ah in fact korea has 2,000 more Hyunmoo series missles in 2018, S.Korea has more missile than N.Korea

I found a mistake in your video, the chonma-ho and the type 59 are absolutely excellent tanks, 1 chonma-ho can knock out 10 abrams tanks so if you dont change it in the next 5 minutes you will disappear.

Commissar Binkov, could you do one between China vs Taiwan? (No nuclear weapons use, no allies)

Let's remember, though, the reason for NK invading SK would be to take over their industrial and economic base. SK is an economic powerhouse and a 'hostile takeover' (literal and figurative) would be the objective for the North. If they were to use nukes against SK's industrial centers and economic centers (such as Busan) it would defeat the whole purpose. Also, NK can barely feed its own population (25.3 million vs SK's 51.4 million) so using nukes on SK would make the famine situation that much worse not to mention there being even less livable space due to irradiated areas. So, assuming NK being logical (a stretch), they wouldn't use nukes except in selective tactical employment. But then they'd risk, as you said, getting other powers involved (possibly with nukes of their own). The best use of nukes for NK would be as EMP delivery systems. An EMP would cripple much of SK's military forces while leaving the more obsolete NK forces relatively unscathed. But, again, the EMP would do even greater damage to SK's economic and industrial power centers, thereby negating the reason NK has for invading and taking over SK.

South Korea has 5 million reservs

I wouldn't be surprised if Kim had a plane on permanent stand-by to take him to China or Switzerland at the first sign of trouble.

No mention of enormous Nork commando forces. Sending them all at once across the border via mass mini sub and An-2 Colt waves, the latter of which might not show up on radar given low altitude and slow speed, could wreak havoc especially in decapitation scenarios.