|
The Next Korean War
Hat Tip: The Marmotâs Hole: http://marmot.blog-city.com/Using the military is an option. Hereâs how it can be done. If China wonât step up to the plate... BY R. JAMES WOOLSEY AND THOMAS G. MCINERNEY Monday, August 4, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT Mr. Woolsey was CIA director from 1993-95. Gen. McInerney, a retired three-star Air Force lieutenant general and former assistant vice chief of staff, is a Fox News military analyst. The White House had a shape-of-the-table announcement last week: North Korea would participate in six-sided talks with the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea and Japan. This was welcome but it changes nothing fundamental. Kim Jong Il has clearly demonstrated his capacity for falsehood in multilateral as well as bilateral forums. The bigger, and much worse, news is the overall course of events this summer. Heâs not just a liar, heâs an industrious little shit... In early July, krypton 85 was detected in locations that suggested that this gas, produced when spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed into plutonium for nuclear weapons, may have emanated from a site other than North Koreaâs known reprocessing facility at Yongbyon. Surprise, surprise.... There would be nothing surprising about a hidden reprocessing plant--North Korea has thousands of underground facilities. But if the reprocessing of the 8,000 spent fuel rods that the North Koreans took out of storage at Yongbyon last January--when it ousted international inspectors and walked away from the Non-Proliferation Treaty--has been completed clandestinely, then Kim Jong Il may already have enough material for several more weapons to go with the one or two he is thought to have from previous reprocessing. This is the real deal: a recommendation for a pre-emptive strike from two knowledgable and experienced hands. Read the rest to get their logic on the military option. Posted by: ·com 2003-08-08 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=17422 |