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N KOREA WILL USE NUKES
Sky News ^ | 5/4/03

Posted on 05/04/2003 1:45:00 AM PDT by Ranger

 
Pyonyang 'would' retaliate
  Pyonyang 'would' retaliate

'N KOREA WILL USE NUKES'

North Korea has at least 100 nuclear missiles aimed at the United States and will use them if new economic sanctions are imposed against it, a spokesman claims.

 

Kim Myong Chol, who styles himself executive director of the Centre for Korea-American Peace said: "It's quite obvious North Korea may have minimum 100 nuclear warheads, maximum 300.

"They all lock onto American cities."

Kim, who goes under the title "unofficial spokesman for North Korea", was speaking in a recorded interview on Australia's Channel Nine Network.

He claimed the weapons had been made before Pyongyang's non-proliferation agreement with the adminstration of former US president Bill Clinton in 1994.

'Economic sanctions'

Kim added that the nuclear technology used to produce the missiles had been tested in Pakistan, a claim which Islamabad has denied.

They did not therefore breach international agreements, he maintained.

Kim was asked if North Korea intended to use the weapons if the US did not give in to its diplomatic and economic demands.

"If the US attacks North Korea, North Korea will definitely use those nuclear weapons against the US mainland," he replied.

"North Korea will use those nuclear weapons against the US mainland if America imposes additional economic sanctions on North Korea."

Pure Heroin

He also rejected a charge by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer last week that an official of North Korea's ruling political party was aboard a North Korean ship accused of smuggling heroin to Australia.

The freighter, Pong Su, was boarded and seized by Australian special forces troops on April 20 after a chase that began when it allegedly unloaded the drugs off southeastern Australia five days earlier.

Some 26 North Korean crew remain in custody, charged with helping to import 110 pounds of pure heroin into Australia.

"I'm afraid the Australian Foreign Minister is entirely wrong," Kim said.

 

 


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alecbaldwinaward; bloviation; korea; northkorea; nukes
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To: AmericanInTokyo
While I certainly don't believe he has 100 missiles aimed at the United States, I certainly believe he has a few.

Even if he has one, it is one too many.

41 posted on 05/04/2003 8:22:33 AM PDT by He Rides A White Horse
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To: Timesink
"I'm sure they do. Too bad for them they have no delivery mechanism that can reach past San Diego."

They are probably too heavy for missiles anyhow. Some nice slow freighters bearing a "special" container, destined for San Diego, L.A., S.F., Seattle, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Miami, and other costal port cities--with radio-controlled detonators--could already be in place, and hence "locked on" to these cities. Overland trucking could bring them to Denver and other land-locked burgs.

Impossible? I'd think not.

--Boris

42 posted on 05/04/2003 8:37:35 AM PDT by boris (Education is always painful; pain is always educational)
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To: He Rides A White Horse
Certain I can agree with THAT.
43 posted on 05/04/2003 8:47:24 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
I would also say that I think the 'freighter' scenario posited by Boris would be the most likely mechanism.
44 posted on 05/04/2003 8:49:32 AM PDT by He Rides A White Horse
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To: Ranger
North Korea may have minimum 100 nuclear warheads, maximum 300. "They all lock onto American cities."

*If* this were true, why in hell would we be wasting our damn time in Iraq?

And I hope one or two of our nuclear subs are parked just off the breakwater from North Korea.

After all these threats, if these sons of bitches so much as launch a sky rocket, on monster dragon day, I say we light um up.

45 posted on 05/04/2003 8:58:11 AM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (i)
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To: Ranger
At first glance, I thought the headline said the North Koreans had "cukes" and would use them.
46 posted on 05/04/2003 9:00:13 AM PDT by Kevin Curry
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To: Ranger
"They all lock onto American cities."

My dog locks onto the moon.

47 posted on 05/04/2003 2:26:29 PM PDT by gcruse (Piety is only skin deep, but hypocrisy goes clear to the soul.)
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To: xm177e2
At least (as we found out) the Soviet Union was
sane and rational.

           How many millions did Stalin starve to death?
48 posted on 05/04/2003 2:30:09 PM PDT by gcruse (Piety is only skin deep, but hypocrisy goes clear to the soul.)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
*If* this were true, why in hell would we be wasting our damn time in Iraq?

And I hope one or two of our nuclear subs are parked just off the breakwater from North Korea.

A situation like Iraq is handled by armored divisions that take months to deploy.

Threats of nuclear strikes against U.S. cities like those coming out of North Korea are handled by a single Boomer off the coast of North Korea whose Trident missile warheads will have a flight time to North Korean targets of a few minutes.

I do not believe the current threats are true. However, if North Korea is not dealt with, they may very well be true ten years down the road when another Democrat may be in the White House.

The time to deal with and kill this rabid Chihuahua is now, during W.'s watch.

49 posted on 05/04/2003 2:53:39 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: gcruse
How many millions did Stalin starve to death?

About 10 million is the upper figure for the Ukraine alone. But he did it in a sane and rational manner.

(the USSR was an Evil Empire, it's leadership was responsible for the murders of millions of people and for forcing others to live in slavery/terror. It was an abomination. But its leadership was sane and rational, unlike Kim Il-Sung/Kim Jong-Il. And if NK was as big as the USSR, Kim Il-Sung/Kim Jong-Il would easily surpass Stalin as a criminal. I'm not saying the USSR's nukes were not a threat, they were probably a bigger threat than what NK has now, just because there were so many more of them....)

50 posted on 05/04/2003 7:56:02 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: xm177e2
The difference is that the Soviets understood MAD. The
Little Leader doesn't seem to have any advisors who can
tell him anything. We're dealing with an immature idiot.
51 posted on 05/04/2003 8:07:13 PM PDT by gcruse (Piety is only skin deep, but hypocrisy goes clear to the soul.)
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