North Korea Breaks I.A.E.A. Seals on 8,000 Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods (BREAKING)

Dong-a Ilbo News (Seoul, Korea) ^ | 23 December 2002 | Dong-a Ilbo News (S.Korea)

[SevenDaysInMay]

For two generations the NK rulers have been constructing thousands of deep, hardened tunnels bristling with heavy artillery and missle launch systems. Their ~1.5 million man army is well fed at all costs. These offensive/defensive positions would be exceedingly difficult to take out even with nukes. Soul to Pusan and Japan are within range. Patty Murry's Washington is too. Kim is nothing if not a Chinese sock puppet.

As you may come across current news articles on this NK "national defense", please post. I doubt American media will publish details which would tanish Mr. Jimmy's Nobel afterglow.

Our trip wire troops in S.K. are in our 37,000 prayers.

[Henchster]

"Rumsfield just stated the U.S. NOW HAS the capabilities to fight on MULTIPLE war fronts."

Sounds like someone just took the seals off a bunch of our tactical nukes then."

BINGO! Even better than the multiple front, we have the capability to fight a war on ONE front, our borders! We have the ability to take on every other country on the planet at once, if we have to. That capability is labeled tactical nukes, and the first use will put the planet on notice we're through pussy-footing around like Clinton did for eight years.

One or two sub-based, cruise missile tactical nuke shots to Iraq and NK would send a message that the adults are back in charge at the White House and Pentagon, we haven't forgotten 9/11, or how evil the Axis-of-Evil is, or in the case of the nuke strikes, was.

[DAnconia55]

North Korea can see that the US is obviously committed to war in Iraq and does not have the resources to invade two countries at once

We don't have to invade NK to disable it.

Hit the nuke sites, launch facilities, armor and C&C with air raids.

And propaganda the people with food.

[glock rocks]

I think it might've started when our surveillance aircraft hit their fighter and they held our crew captive.

their fighter his our airplane. you've really got to quit watching cnn.

[hchutch]

Time to level Yongbyon's nuclear weapons complex ASAP.

I dunno if GPS-guided GBU-36 bombs can do it, but suppose we could use 2,700-pound projectiles hitting that complex at Mach 2+ twice a minute, and just hammer it that way for 45 minutes to an hour?

[DCPatriot]

"...Also, lets face it: America does not have the resolve to build a world empire..."

Uh, did I miss the memo? What "world empire" are we trying to build?

[concerned about politics]

I think Bill Clinton is a top level demon, anti Christ type character. With one of his missions being the spread of nuclear weaponry to rouge nations. I know him by his lies and his smile.

"By his lieing tonge, he will decieve many."
"The man of desolation, the man of sin..."
"He will magnify himself above all others."

[dennisw]

Samsung has been slashing LCD monitor prices. For the ones it sells under it's own name and ones Dell sells under it's name. Do you think this is a reflection of growing South Korean uneasiness with the North? FWIW Samsung seems to make most of them in Korea and some are made (assembled from Korean parts?) in Mexico.

[rs79bm]

BTW, Where is Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter? Shouldn't they be on the phone with the Korean Dictator? They're the ones who had the agreement with the Koreans, and shipped them all the technology. Where are they now? And why aren't the media demanding they do something about it? .... Answers anyone???

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Wonder if we can catch them on a day when the wind is blowing from the east.

[OXENinFLA]

I got it we make SK an ISLAND!!!!

[dennisw]

Thanks! Good quotes.

[Poohbah]

Actually, 12 GBU-36s would be enough to destroy the facility if delivered with the correct timing. The resonant shockwaves would simply collapse the underground portion and the above-ground part would follow :o)

[irish_lad]

I think you have a valid point. We've got IRAQ pinned down, for the moment, with weapon inspectors. The problem is that the nuts in N Korea may go nuclear against S Korea or Japan if we do something.

We somehow have got to convince China that N Korea is bad for business and should be eliminated.

[TLBSHOW]

Rumsfeld: U.S. Can Handle N. Korea, Iraq
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By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned North Korea (news - web sites) on Monday not to feel emboldened by the world's focus on Iraq. "If they do, it would be a mistake," he said.


AP Photo



Speaking at a Pentagon (news - web sites) news conference, Rumsfeld repeated administration assertions that the United States can handle more than one major military conflict simultaneously. He said he didn't feel North Korea would try to exploit the fact that the Bush administration is paying closer attention to disarming Iraqi leader Saddam Huseein.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=542&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20021223/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_nkorea

[AmericanInTokyo]

This should also be considered 'ground zero' for any plans the Pentagon is deliberating (along with the launch sites immediately for Taepodong and Nodong missiles in HamgyeongBuk Province and HamgyeonNam Province on the north east coast of DPRK.

[geedee]

[optimistically_conservative]

Unfortunately the toxic plume would not be confined to North Korea.

Some interesting sites about the 1994 standoff...

• Option 1: Wait out North Korea on the assumption that the regime will not survive long enough to seriously threaten U.S. or allied interests with its nuclear capability
• Option 2: Seek a "comprehensive settlement" of Korean peninsula issues, primarily through diplomacy
• Option 3: Seek economic sanctions under the United Nations Security Council
• Option 4: Military augmentation
• Option 5: Counterproliferation strikes against North Korea's nuclear installations
• Option 6: Negotiated reduction of the U.S. military presence in South Korea

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/94-470f.htm

The fact is that when President Clinton spoke to President Carter on Sunday morning, he thanked him, told him that he thought he had served well in what he had done. President Carter, as I recall, then quoted him -- President Clinton -- over the weekend, and since -- we could go back and look at it -- has been quite positive about what President Carter had done.

What he kept saying and what was accurate was that President Carter had created here an opportunity that we were going to explore. I remember saying that myself. And that opportunity has paid off very nicely. So I just plain think it is wrong to say that suddenly he has changed what he has said. He used the past tense today to say he did a good job, rather than "is doing" because now that's true.

On the question of coordination, we have said many times what happened, which is that President Carter said that he had an invitation to go to North Korea. He got in touch first with Vice President Gore and with the President to ask whether we agreed to his going, emphasizing that he was going as a private citizen, as he said in a press release that he put out at the time, representing the Carter Center. We discussed it within the administration. This was while we were in Europe, as I recall -- or was it -- in Oxford -- and got back to President Carter and said, yes, we agreed to his going -- although he didn't need our permission, he was acting as a private citizen -- and agreed that he should be very fully briefed on our policies so that he could accurately convey them to the North Koreans.

Ambassador Gallucci met with him at great length. I met with him while he was here in Washington before he went out. And the rest is recent history.

http://www.fas.org/news/dprk/1994/

[blam]

"We can only hope Jack Ryan saves the day yet again!"

Yup. Hopefully, Clark is already there.

[AmericanInTokyo]