Posted on 03/13/2003 2:10:09 PM PST by vannrox
North Korea threatens to attack US
North Korea would launch a ballistic missile attack on the United States if Washington made a pre-emptive strike against the communist state's nuclear plant, the man described as Pyongyang's "unofficial spokesman" said yesterday. Kim Myong-chol, who has links to the Stalinist regime, told foreign reporters in Tokyo that a US strike on the nuclear plant at Yongbyon "means nuclear war". "If American forces carry out a pre-emptive strike on the Yongbyon facility, North Korea will immediately target, carry the war to the US mainland," he said, claiming that New York, Washington and Chicago would be "aflame". A pre-emptive US strike on Yongbyon is one of the strategic scenarios in the crisis over North Korea's nuclear arms program. The US has deployed 24 long-range bombers to the Pacific base of Guam capable of launching such a strike. Mr Kim, who has written a text studied by North Korean military and political leaders, predicted that Pyongyang would restart a reprocessing plant to make weapons-grade plutonium this month. A nuclear weapon would be produced by the end of April, with another five produced by the end of the year. This was on top of a suspected nuclear arsenal of 100 weapons. The ultimate aim of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was the "neutralisation of the American factor" in the region, Mr Kim said. This would be achieved by striking a non-aggression pact with the US, or becoming an official nuclear power, thereby making the US nuclear umbrella in the region irrelevant. "Both ways, Kim Jong-il is a winner," he said. "By the end of the year, I predict Bush will be in Pyongyang suing for peace," he said. While his comments are extreme, they match the heated and belligerent rhetoric of North Korea, which has previously warned of nuclear war and turning the cities of its enemies into a "sea of ashes". The Bush Administration yesterday made renewed calls on China and other countries in the region to help broker a solution to the crisis. In a televised news conference, Mr Bush said North Korea's nuclear arms program was a regional issue. "I say regional because there's a lot of countries that have got a direct stake into whether or not North Korea has nuclear weapons," Mr Bush said. "China clearly has a stake as to whether or not North Korea has a nuclear weapon." The Bush Administration is pushing for multilateral talks with North Korea, while Pyongyang wants direct talks with Washington. US Secretary of State Colin Powell told a US Senate committee: "We have a number of diplomatic initiatives under way, some of them very, very quietly under way, to see if we cannot get a multilateral dialogue started." Yesterday, the US also flagged the possible withdrawal of its 37,000 troops from South Korea, part of the rethink of a deployment in place since the end of the Korean War in 1953. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the US was consulting South Korea and he suspected "we'll end up making some adjustments there". "Whether the forces come home or whether they will move further south of the (Korean) peninsula or whether to some neighbouring area are the kinds of things that are being sorted out," he said at a meeting in Germany.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826530206.html
By Shane Green
Tokyo
March 8 2003
Of course not. Because all liberals know that these loony totalitarian dictators can all be "reasoned" with if we will only open a "dialogue." No crazy dictator would actually start a war (unless the U.S. unreasonably threatens them).
We would attack using conventional weapons. If they responded with nuclear weapons, we'd turn them into a steaming slag heap.
As far as you know.
I am really tired of hearing this kind of DemoncRAT stupidity being proffered. First of all, why don't people remember the threats North Korea periodically throws around EVERY TIME the US appears distracted with something else. They do this for several purposes, one being their attempts to blackmail US at a time when we're most vulnerable, another is to distract the US from protecting our interests and, lastly, like the DemoncRATs themselves, they're interested in weakening Bush in any way they can. The best way to deal with North Korea at this point in time is TO FINISH IRAQ. First that demonstration of power is not only designed to "shock & awe" the Iraqi's, it's designed to "impress" the North Koreans as well. Remember, North Korea has largely armed itself from the same merchants, Russia, China & France, that Iraq has and they need another reminder - ala 91 Gulf War - of what they're truly up against. The second thing addressing Iraq does is demonstrate US resolve in the face of mounting pressures from anti-US forces, including the French and North Korea. Everybody is looking and the last thing we need when dealing with North Korea is to blink, as the North Koreans and the DemoncRATs themselves are urging Bush & the US to do. Lastly, this whole argument is absurd because we ARE dealing with North Korea - we're moving armaments around, continuing surveillance flights with guards and are engaged behind the scenes both diplomatically and, undoubtedly, covertly, as well.
It also happened to break the back of the USSR .... so I don't call it much of a failure.
I'm surprised it took until #22!
Let's just hope it hits within 35 miles of the coast, and that the Santa Anas are blowing(east to west).....then Kalifornia would be pretty much back in the conservative Red Zone.
I have a far better prediction, Mr. Kim.
I predict that, by the end of the year, PRESIDENT Bush will be so fed up with you little insects that he trains the might of the most powerful fighting force on the face of the planet.........in all recorded history...........onto your slimy-assed little country and........just............eradicates you.
Problem solved.
......and there's not a go**amned thing you can do about it.
It's a little late for a pre-emptive strike now. We had our chance, before they restarted the damn thing.
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