Postulated Role of Special Forces in Japan

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6. Good points

Bruce Bennett's work at Rand related to this issue (2013) was oriented to a mission to locate and secure WMD in North Korea, in a "collapse" environment in which the environment might be unopposed, partially opposed by some elements of DPRK armed forces, or the possibility of contact with Chinese forces essentially doing the same thing, looking to disarm DPRK within their expected "buffer zone."

The force requirements seemed daunting and very challenging. Preparing for the
Possibility of a North Korean Collapse Bruce W. Bennett Prepared 2013. Chapter 6 addresses this problem. There is a link to the study which offers a free PDF version.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/bennett_bruce.html

This may be earlier in the study, I lost the page number:

"As chaos develops in North Korea, the ROK, the United States, and
China would all likely send special operations forces (SOF) into the
North for special reconnaissance, focused in particular on North
Korean WMD facilities."

I guess the odd thing about these South Korean broadcasts is that they seem to be clearly addressing an opposed environment. They did say that the Special Forces would be "tier one" forces, backed up by more substantial forces.