朝鲜常规炮兵：一种报复，胁迫，威慑或恐吓人口的手段.docxVIP

Preface RAND’S ARROYO CENTER has carefully studied the threat posed by the massive numbers of North Korean artillery systems within range of major South Korean population centers. If fired at civilian targets, those nearly 6,000 systems could potentially kill more than 10,000 people in only an hour. Even brief, narrowly tailored attacks could destroy key industrial facilities and seriously harm the South Korean economy. This threat gives North Korea the power to coerce the South Korean government, or to retaliate against South Korean military or political actions, even without resorting to it