Posted on 03/08/2003 10:14:21 AM PST by Enemy Of The State
North Korean Has More Than 100 Nuclear Bombs and Will Make More: Kim Myong Chol, North Korea's Unofficial Spokesman
Korea WebWeekly (March 8, 2003) - North Korea's unofficial spokesman, Kim Myong Chul, disclosed at a professional luncheon at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan yesterday that North Korea has more than one hundred nuclear bombs and will likely declare its nuclear-power status sometime this year unless the Bush Administration agrees to hold bilateral talks with North Korea.
Kim Myong Chol is a Japanese-born Korean whose impoverished parents from Cheju-do immigrated to Japan. Kim received a PhD from Kim Il Sung University for his research on North Korea's military doctrines. He is close to Kim Jong Il's inner circle, and his writings and speeches are required readings for North Korea's elite. A year ago, he correctly predicted that North Korea would withdraw from the IAEA and start up its nuclear facilities.
Kim said that the strategic goal of Kim Jong Il is to neutralize and remove the American influence from the Korean Peninsula. He said, “The dream scenario for the achievement of the goal is to have a peace treaty concluded with the United States. The second best scenario is neutralizing the American nuclear threats by acquiring nuclear capability.”
He also stated that North Korea will soon have the capacity to rain ballistic missiles loaded with weapons of mass destruction down upon most cities in the United States. The US and South Korean armies are currently holding massive war games near the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas, and North Korea sees the exercises as the initial phase of the US invasion of North Korea.
Kim warns North Korea will retaliate if Bush mount "surgical strikes" against North Korea's nuclear facility at Yongbyon. North Korea will mount an immediate retaliation against the US homeland, leaving "Washington, New York and Chicago aflame." He states: "North Korean missiles can reach any part of the United States of America. There is no safe place for Bush to hide." But if Bush agrees to talk, Kim Jong Il will accept US-led inspections and the eventual reunification of Korea, which inevitably will lead to a democratic, unified nation. After unification, Kim Jong Il will step down and let the people of Korea elect their national leader. Kim says what Kim Jong Il wants is to unite Korea and kick out US troops from South Korea; Kim Jong Il does not need or want any US economic aids.
Kim predicts that North Korea would continue to threaten Washington with missile tests and production of nuclear weapons until Bush is forced to come to Pyongyang and sue for peace. He said: "As long as Bush refuses to talk to North Korea, North Korea will feel justified acquiring nuclear arms and nuclear weapons." Kim states that once North Korea declares a nuclear-power status by exploding a hydrogen bomb or two, the presence of US troops on the Korean peninsula will become irrelevant. Indeed, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld knows this and plans to remove US troops from South Korea, away from North Korea's nuclear blasts.
Kim states: "Acquiring nuclear weapons is just one means to neutralize the U.S. role. The dream scheme is to secure a peace treaty and diplomatic recognition from Washington." Kim claims that Pyongyang had decided to pursue nuclear weapons programs because neither Clinton nor Bush intended to deliver on the promises the United States made in the 1994 Agreed Framework. The US policy makers erroneously believed that Kim Jong Il's regime would collapse within a decade. It is believed that this believe was based on testimonies of a high-ranking North Korean defector.
Contrary to Bush's claim that he has kept his end of the bargain, the fact of the matter is that Bush has not kept its end of the bargain: the two light-water reactors are light-years away from completion, the US economic embargo is still in place, US military threats have intensified, and the US delivery of heavy oil has stopped.
Now, for the critical part - last week you guys were all saying that we were going into Iraq to "control the oil", or simply for the "oil" itself!
Now, we start hearing this business from Jim Moran, a member of the House of Representatives and very closely linked to all the most extremely left-wing Democrats, to the effect that except for the Jews we would not be going into Iraq.
Has it all been some sort of a codeword thing for the last couple of months where "oil" meant "Jews", and now as we get within hours of the invasion you have pulled out all stops and are now out in the open with the "it's all the fault of the Jews" nonsense?
Hope Saddam paid you well!
Kim is the posterboy for reviving the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
Reagan's dream is alive and well.
Okies. So we just nuke you all first. Then what?
He's headed down the road to destruction.
Oh, I dunno, the fact that we have been bombing the hell out of them for the past 12 years (I know, I know, why Clinton and Bush haven't bombed their WMD facilities even though they apparently knew about them, and chose to bomb their air defenses, etc. is beyond me), and Iraq hasn't moved on other countries, that would indicate to me that we have contained quite a bit.
Now, for the critical part - last week you guys were all saying that we were going into Iraq to "control the oil", or simply for the "oil" itself!
I didn't say it was about oil. You just killed whatever credibility you might have had.
It's not about terrorism, or we'd be looking at the palestinians, the Iranians, a lot of Pakistanis, Chechneyans, and the Saudis. I don't know what it's about. Bush has not done a good job of "selling" this war so to speak. All of the violations that are being used as cause to go after Iraq existed long before 9/11. Why Bush waited around, why Clinton ignored it (except when he got involved in some scandal, and then the bombs would drop) is beyond me.
For a while I honestly believed that as soon as they tried to link Iraq to 9/11 (and the links they cited fell apart), when it was pointing to Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, that they were using Iraq as their scapegoat because they failed to kill/capture OBL and his cronies. They are finally capturing them now.
Has it all been some sort of a codeword thing for the last couple of months where "oil" meant "Jews"
I doubt it's some kind of codeword for "Jews" as Israel can protect themselves quite nicely. They've been left alone on a national scale for quite some time now, now that their neighbors know they can turn their capitals into a sheet of glass. Israel's only serious problem is the palestinians, and a lot of that is coming from money provided by the Saudis.
Hope Saddam paid you well!
LMAO. You can't come up with a good response so you attack me, lol. Go learn some debating skills. Mine aren't the best I'll admit, but give me a break, I could come up with a better personal attack than that. By the way, I hope your willing to take in survivors if that non-threat North Korea starts lobbing missiles our way.
For your future reference, my belief on the whole oil thing and the middle east - I believe that outside of North Korea and China, the biggest threat this country faces has to do with our being tied to and reliant upon middle eastern oil. We need to get out of the middle east, we need to stop buying their oil. I don't care if we have to go in and clean up Nigeria, I don't care if we have to cut deals with the Russians, Mexicans, and Venezuelans, I don't care if we have to open up more of Alaska and that area. As long as we have got one soldier there who's not guarding an embassy, as long as we are buying one gallon of oil from the middle east, as long as we keep sending boatloads money to Israel, we are going to have problems.
That still won't prevent the inevitable from happening. As long as NK is run by somebody who is completly insane, we are threatened. You look at history, our nuclear-armed adversaries have always had a bit of self-preservation in them. Outside of Kruschev, you didn't have to worry about the other guy pushing the button, and even he was controlled by others. NK has an insane leader, and his people are starving and probably believe whatever nutty ideas fly out of his mouth.
Like I told a friend recently, when you look at WWII Nazi Germany and what they did as far as missiles/rockets with warheads, and you look at how far advanced North Korea is over them, it's not hard to imagine a few of our states getting nuked.
The Japanese themselves have started talking about this. That's a problem for the Chinese, who undoubtably don't care to see a powerful Japan.
Kim is going to isolate himself from everybody.
| North Korea has more than one hundred nuclear bombs
The Japanese will not mess with this. They will not go to the UN. They will not even tell us. They will just do it. |
Next, we should tell their facist friends, the smiling communists in the PRC, that if they won't police their region we will.
Lastly, President Roh of South Korea should be read the riot act: We will not show cowardice in the face of an aggressor.........the neutron bombs are on their way; Oh yes, and by the way, now that we've taken out Kim, we're going home. Good luck...........Samsung sucks, we're buying only Sony products from now on.
Introduce them to our Ohio-class (Trident) ballistic-missile submarines.
Payload of 24 multiple-warhead, long-range Trident ballistic missiles
Yes--but there is a (strong, IMHO) possibility that some of those weapons are already in place in large U.S. cities and that we are being blackmailed into inaction.
--Boris
Are you on mind altering drugs? I blamed nothing on "the Jews". You are either confusing me with somebody else, or else all of the tinfoil in your house is starting to get to your head.
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That doesn't strike me as the smartest thing to say to an audience in Japan. The Japanese view the Koreans as long-term, serious enemies -- and vice versa. There are grudges both ways, going back a long time.