DEFIANT N. KOREA FIRING UP ITS NUKES

The NY Post ^ | Feb. 6, 2003 | ANDY SOLTIS

[conservativecorner]

North Korea raised the stakes in its confrontation with the United States yesterday, with the surprise announcement that it had restarted a nuclear-energy program that Washington says was building atomic weapons. The State Department said the move - which could allow North Korea to have nuclear bombs within a few months - is a "very serious development" and demanded that Pyongyang "reverse this action."

[AZConcervative]

Could this possibly be because the UN is showing itself to be a paper tiger?

[HELLRAISER II]

It's very probable, but they forget one thing. America is a giant Pitt Bull with a ballsy President and just as we have told the rest of the world that we will attack Iraq without them, we will do the same with North Korea if need be.

[mikhailovich]

Also worth examining is the timing of this decision. To me, this validates NK's alleged status of being in an "Axis of Evil", along with Iraq. It's curious they would time such a decision to exactly coincide with the most likely time for a US attack on her sister in crime. Perhaps the word "Axis" takes on more meaning.....

[cake_crumb]

"Could this possibly be because the UN is showing itself to be a paper tiger?"

IMO, Kim knew the UN was a paper tiger years ago, when the IAEA failed to ensure that those fuel rods had been disposed of. Saddam may be bright enough to realize that President Bush is no one to tick off, but Kim doesn't seem to be. I wonder how much Saddam is paying him in money and oil to pull this conveniently times phycho act right now?

[blackdog]

Remember when Spain siezed that ship with the missiles headed to Yemen from NK? About one month later, the explosion in Syria was horrific.

I think as we did in that case, we need to start handling these matters in a more covert, clever, and devastating manner. Industrial/military espionage and sabatoge is the way to go. NK wants nuclear abilities? Time to give them what they want......Software tinkering, valve bypassing, out of spec specialty machining and metals, and thousands of tricks that will create their own Chernobyl. NK is procuring all their stuff from cooperating countries. It's time we also cooperated.

[HELLRAISER II]

We will eventually have no choice but to kick their @ss. They have proven in the recent weeks that their spoiling for a fight by continuously threatening us with war & nukes. I don't know about the rest of ya'll but this is one American that doesn't take kindly to threats, Especially threats of Nuclear attacks on us when we aren't threatening them in any way. They are trying to extort money from us plain & simple and I think they need to have their @sses spanked thoroughly.

[Centurion2000]

Remember when Spain siezed that ship with the missiles headed to Yemen from NK? About one month later, the explosion in Syria was horrific.

What explosion???

[blackdog]

A curious few weeks after that load of missiles was offloaded in Yemen, some sort of military fanfare was going on in Syria. The local press was going to be invited and the whole thing was promised to be a real Jihad-a-Rama. Well, the explosion left a crater a mile accross before the press could be driven on the busses to see whatever was going to be showed to them. Ambulances were arriving at the staging point, and even they were told to return since the human element was mostly splatter and hot gasses.

Suspicion is that those missiles we temporarily detained at sea and then let go to Yemen (at the outrage of intelligent people), were tinkered with by our military engineers. When some Syrian Raghead grunt followed the NK supplied manual during set-up, the master switch was rewired to the self destruct circuit or such.

Pretty damn effective......