Oplan 5027

OPLAN 5027 ( Operations plan , formerly War Plan ) is a military plan of the United States for a possible war between North and South Korea. The current version of the plan assumes that North Korea would start a new Korean war without any visible mobilization. A devastating attack on Seoul is expected, mainly with artillery. Due to the massive technological superiority of the armed forces of South Korea and the United States, North Korea's only chance of victory is to overrun the troops stationed in Korea through a numerical superiority with the aim of either conquering the entire peninsula before relievingcan arrive, or inflict at least enough casualties on the defenders to force a peace. The plan of operations therefore envisages attacking the North Korean ground forces very quickly using the navy and air force. The artillery pieces and bomber units aiming at Seoul would be attacked first. The advance warning time is decisive here.

The chronology of the plan updates can be found at the end of the document. So OPLAN 5027-04 stands for updates in 2014.

See also

• North Korean military
• South Korean military
• Color-coded United States war plans
  • War Plan Orange : American plan developed between the two world wars for a war against Japan
• Operations Plan [OPLAN] from GlobalSecurity.org
  • OPLAN 1002: Defense of the Arabian Peninsula
  • OPLAN 4102: Defense of Western Europe
  • OPLAN 5027: Main War Zone - West (Korea)
  • OPLAN 8044: atomic case
  • OPLAN 8022: Nuclear Strategy
  • CONPLAN 8022: Prompt Global Strike (immediate, worldwide strike)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ OPLAN 5027 Major Theater War - West. In: Global Security.org. March 21, 2007, accessed August 13, 2018 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Robert D. Kaplan: When North Korea Falls (English) , Atlantic Monthly . October 2006. Retrieved July 31, 2009. 
3. ↑ Operation Plans [OPLAN]. In: GlobalSecurity.org. August 13, 2017, archived from the original on December 22, 217 ; accessed on August 13, 2018 . 
4. ↑ John Pike: [ Internet source: archiv-url invalid OPLAN 1002 Defense of the Arabian Peninsula. ] In: GlobalSecurity.org. July 5, 2011, archived from the original on November 10, 2017 ; accessed on August 13, 2018 . 
5. ↑ OPLAN 4102 Defense of Western Europe. Archived from the original on January 3, 2018 ; accessed on August 13, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Context of 'Spring 1992: Military Updates Operation Garden Plot Following Riots in Los Angeles'. In: History Commons. 2012, archived from the original on 2017 ; accessed on August 13, 2018 .