User blog comment:Daxus Inferno/Real Countries?/@comment-4780584-20130402142849/@comment-3398633-20130402153140

Well this much is for sure. Japan, South Korea, and maybe the United States would be involved in the conflict, with North Korea and maybe China on the other side. I forsee Russia supplying North Korea with weapons while remaining neutral, perhaps as a way of weaking American power in the region. Austraila would stay out of the fight, perhaps viewing it as "America's War", and the Phillipines and Indonesia would remain quite about the whole affair, with numerous problems of their own.

NATO would remain out of the fight, as the European countries involved would not want to get involved either since their people also fought two wars (three if you count Libya), and are suffering economic woes with the near-collapse of the Eurozone. So if its just China, North Korea, Japan (who may withdraw given their policies), and South Korea, I predict a North Korean victory, or total war from which neither nation would survive.

In my opinion, North Korea has numbers, drive, nukes and South Korea has better weaponry and training. Their too evenly balanced.