South Korea's military capability has been found to be weaker than that of North Korea, even without accounting for the communist state's probable nuclear and biological weaponry.

According to a study by the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, the South Korean Army and Navy's strengths were 80 percent and 90 percent of those of the North, while its Air Force power was 103 percent of the North's.

However, the institute said the figures would not necessarily determine the outcome of a real combat situation, as South Korea's communication and computer network systems were judged vastly superior to those of the North.