Posted on 07/19/2005 10:01:30 PM PDT by WJHII
The Mouse that Roared By William John Hagan
July 20, 2005
(Houston Home Journal, Perry GA) On 9/11 the United States was completely unprepared for attack. The Bush administration has competently protected the nation from terrorist attack by using the often overreaching powers of the Department of Homeland Security. Today most Americans rightfully expect and fear a future attack from Islamic Terrorists that would rival the mass murder of 2001. However, in reality, the greatest threat faced today by the United States is an attack by the rogue nation of North Korea.
For almost two decades, incompetent Secretaries of State such as Madeline Albright and Colin Powell stood by and allowed North Korea to develop a sophisticated nuclear weapons program. Rather than advising their respective Presidents to take military action against this small but now powerful nation, they appeased, capitulated and signed treaties trading food and fuel for empty promises. Today, the United States is virtually powerless to deal with this nuclear problem because North Korea has become a nation with the ability to sell its technology for much-needed hard currency to groups such as Al-Qaeda or nations like Iran and Syria. It is also now capable of directly attacking the US Homeland.
To explore the depth of this problem, I went directly to the North Korean Government (DPRK) and conducted an extensive interview with Alejandro Cao de Benos, North Korea’s Special Delegate for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Our conversations ranged from hostile to friendly but, in the end , I was able to gain valuable insight into the very real threat that North Korea poses to the US.
How is it that a nation with such limited nuclear weapons poses such a great threat? The answer lies in the sophisticated use of limited nuclear weapons. A nuclear bomb which is detonated high in the atmosphere is known as an “electromagnetic pulse” weapon or (EMP). It has been reported that both Iran and North Korea have been working to develop this technology. In my talks with de Benos, he confirmed that North Korea had EMPs and has been able to strike the US mainland with three-stage missiles since 1998.
Author John Lewallen states that a single, “[EMP] explosion about 250 miles over Omaha, Nebraska, would emit an Electromagnetic Pulse large enough and strong enough to collapse information society from coast to coast at the speed of light.” Senator Jon Kyl, Chairman of a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, recently revealed that an EMP attack “is one of only a few ways that the United States could be defeated by its enemies -- terrorist or otherwise” and those who survived the technological meltdown would find themselves transported back to the United States of the 1880s.
In my interview with de Benos, he confirmed that North Korea would use EMPs and nuclear weapons against the USA in the event of war and that their government believed that “the DPRK being able to strike any highly populated US city will create such an internal chaos that nothing will work in the USA and the military and executive command will lose control…[resulting in] the end of the current US society.” In short, they believe they can win a war against the United States and such conviction makes them a very dangerous enemy.
As a result of the clear technological advances of our enemies, the United States must now reconsider its policy against the use of first-strike nuclear weapons. That policy was formulated in an age when nuclear war with the Soviet Union could have meant the end of the world. Today, a nuclear first-strike by the United States might be the only way to save the world as we know it.
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Watched a very long show on the History Channel about NK today. Fearless leader and his followers, at least party members, are flat out NUTS.
so was the guy I interviewed. He was born in Spain and move to North Korea. Now thats nuts.
I am amazed that they trust him.....no, make that stunned.
They know nothing else.
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