

The USA, despite commanding one of the planet’s most effective militaries and spending the most of any potentially involved nation, has just 409,000 active military personnel. He also commands 545 combat jets, significantly fewer than China or the US. Kim Jong-un also has access to 4,060 tanks, vastly outnumbering the military makeup of his southern neighbours. They also have more submarines than countries who could be dragged into a third world war, boasting 73 in total.īut they fall behind in other military hardware, with only 286 helicopters and three warships. The military is believed to make up almost four per cent of the hermit kingdom’s population. North Korea has the second largest army of any country in the region – with 1.02 million military personnel ready to fight. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s threats to rain “fire and fury” on the Korean peninsula have stoked the flames of conflict that risk igniting World War 3.Īnd with Japan and South Korea aligned with the west along with Russian and Chinese interests in Kim Jong-un’s hermit kingdom, conflict in the region risks dragging the world’s superpowers into a furious fire fight.īut who has the most powerful military of them all? North Korean military tests have made tensions in the Pacific skyrocket – with young despot Kim Jong-un testing inter-continental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the US and hydrogen bombs five times more powerful than the last nuclear weapon to have been used in a war zone. TENSIONS in North Korea could risk dragging Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and the USA into all out conflict – but who has the most powerful military? World War 3 armies REVEALED – Who would win in all out conflict with North Korea?
