Posted on 11/07/2005 6:40:17 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
U.S. Author Sees Kim Jong-il Gone in Five Years
A U.S. global security pundit says the U.S. can mobilize the help of South Korea, China and Japan to get rid of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il within five years if it wants to. Thomas Barnett, the author of the widely discussed "The Pentagon's New Map" on Washington’s future military strategy released in 2004, makes the suggestion in his follow-up "Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating" published last month.
An expert on the former Soviet Union and a former professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, Barnett briefly served as a consultant in the Pentagon after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
In the new book, Barnett names China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Russia as potential members of a united front the U.S. can mobilize to handle North Korea, which he calls a useless organ left over from the Cold War. He claims China can be brought on board if Washington withdraws from its mutual defense treaty with Taiwan, while Japan will jump on the bandwagon if the U.S. and China join hands. Australia and New Zealand could be invited to play stabilizing roles in Asia, and Russia could be asked to connect gas pipelines from the Korean Peninsula to Japan after the whole plan is complete.
Barnett offers three scenarios for the ouster Kim Jong-il. One would be to exile Kim to another country, much in the way that “Baby Doc” Duvalier of Haiti was deposed. Another would be to put him before a tribunal in The Hague like Yugoslavia’s Slobodan Milosevic, and the third option would be to threaten him with military attacks like the U.S. did in Iraq. Barnett already raised eyebrows with the previous book, which advocates aggressive U.S. military engagement after Sept. 11.
Still, in one form or another, U.S. would take action sooner than Barnett said. I don't see Bush leaving Whitehouse without taking care of Kim Jong-il.
Ping!
I put no stock in that globo-dweeb; he's nothing but trouble.
As far as I am concerned he's a socialist plant in the Pentagon.
In all probability, Kim will be devoured by his own NKers - and not necessarily in sundried form.
God forbid Taiwan would be given up. Some Taiwan residents believe in freedom more than this author does and will die for it. And China is NOT afraid to grant them their wish en masse - to the tune of Tiannemen Square.
Maybe we could get Matt and Trey from SOuth Park do sequel to Team America but have Real CHia Pet Kim Jong 11 appear it in it
Russia and China attacking N.Korea? Won't happen because Russia and China sell weapons to N.Korea, and Russia and China see N.Korea as a buffer between them and the West.
NK is out of money...
It would happen because Taiwan is more important to China than North Korea -- also, relations between China and South Korea are much stronger these days due to their common dislike of Japan and the surging economic trade between them.
Ping... I still don't think so. China would use N.Korea to draw our attention away from Taiwan, and Russia would assist China/North Korea.
Actually Team America 2 is most likely, At the end it did leave a cliffhanger when a roach like kim escaped in a shuttle.
The Russians have actually threatened N.Korea twice in order to get them to return. If N.Korea has a nuclear exchange with the US (rather one sided, true) all the fallout and refugees will head North...into Russia.
Russia may stay out it, they ahve no incentive with N Korea. China is also getting irritated with the north. So you bet, if there is a seccret agreement with China from US about Taiwan, China will act on it.
YOu know what Chia Pet didnt' died in Team America they could him bring back COME ON he could come back as Alien this time LOL!
I'd love to see (but don't expect to see) an overthrow of the NK regime totally launched by Koreans.
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