N. Korea continues to reject U.N. arms inspections

USA Today / AP ^ | 12/10/2002 | Staff

[ex-Texan]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP)

[Cacophonous]

Where are the War Hawks, calling for an invasion of North Korea?

[anobjectivist]

Let's take out Saddam FAST and then move on to North Korea. This problem could've been stopped in 1994 but Jimmy Clinton prevented it.

[yonif]

I think we should go after Libya or Iran after Saddam, not North Korea.

[dirtboy]

Where are the War Hawks, calling for an invasion of North Korea?

One step at a time. The U.S. probably doesn't have enough resources to crack both nuts at once, the placement of U.N. resolutions allowing war against Iraq is much further along than any equivalent process against North Korea, and North Korea is a much more delicate situation.

Those who demand consistency in foreign policy will get the likes of Jimmy Carter, who is consistently foolish.

[Mo1]

Hey .. maybe the UN can send Jimmy Carter back over there to have another talk with North Korea

[hchutch]

You have it right, dirtboy. From what I understand, the North Korans have their nuclear weapons sites buried about 75 to 100 feet down.

The only platforms that could really handle deal with Yongbyon nuclear weapons complex will need at least nine months and possibly longer for reactivation. Possibly a little longer. But they'll do just fine... :D

http://www.usnfsa.com/articles/fsao/fsao14.htm

[dirtboy]

maybe the UN can send Jimmy Carter back over there to have another talk with North Korea

That threat would normally be enough to make most nations cave, especially if he drags Rosalyn and Amy along (terroristic boredom, anyone?), but the North Koreans are made of sterner stuff - decades of exposure to hard-core Stalinism makes them immune to the inanities of garden-variety American liberal idiocy...

[Poohbah]

The only platforms that could really handle deal with Yongbyon nuclear weapons complex will need at least nine months and possibly longer for reactivation. Possibly a little longer. But they'll do just fine... :D

That is a load of BS...an EGBU-28 will do the job nicely.

[RightWhale]

go after Libya or Iran after Saddam

Damascus

[Mo1]

Hmmmm .. good point

Ok .. how about Al & Tipper Gore and they can sell a few books too

[DoctorMichael]

Those who demand consistency in foreign policy will get the likes of Jimmy Carter, who is consistently foolish.

Well put!................and my vote for Quote-of-the-Day.

[dirtboy]

Ok .. how about Al & Tipper Gore and they can sell a few books too

The North Koreans would eat those books up ... literally ... seeing that they are reduced to knawing on tree bark, some book soup would probably be a delicacy...

[hchutch]

B-2's have a long turnaround time - if the first round fails, we're going to have to wait a while to get a second shot. And we're in trouble then.

F-15Es aren't quite stealthy - we'd have to expect losses. I don't know of anything else that can carry GBU-28s.

We should have built more than 20 B-2s, we could have a second element waiting in case the first element didn't succeed.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Those who demand consistency in foreign policy will get the likes of Jimmy Carter, who is consistently foolish.

Well said!

[Poohbah]

The problem is that the BBs can't reliably hit targets that deep without being detected as well. Lose some F-15Es...well, that is a problem. Lose a battleship...that's a frickin' disaster.

[rintense]

Just one more stain from the Clinton administration that Dubya will have to clean up.

[hchutch]

Valid point, but if the pilots eject and the NKs take `em as POWs, we're looking at a disaster of another stripe. I don't think we could pull off a Son Tay-type op to rescue POWs on the Korean peninsula.

We're going to have to figure something out.

[Poohbah]

Valid point, but if the pilots eject and the NKs take `em as POWs, we're looking at a disaster of another stripe. I don't think we could pull off a Son Tay-type op to rescue POWs on the Korean peninsula.

Dude, the risk kinda sorta comes with the flight pay...

[r9etb]

Dude, the risk kinda sorta comes with the flight pay...

Plus which, we can send in Jesse Jackson to get them out. And, hey, Jess -- while you're at it, can you negotiate a NK arms control agreement for us? ;-)