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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESIDENT CLINTON ALMOST STARTED A SECOND KOREAN WAR May 26, 2000
Agence France Presse reported: “South Korea stopped US President Bill Clinton from launching an air strike against North Korea's nuclear facilities in June 1994, according to the South Korean president at the time, Kim Young-Sam. In an interview with the independent Hankyoreh Daily, Kim said a last-minute phone conversation with Clinton saved the Korean peninsula from an imminent war, at the height of an international crisis over North Korea's nuclear program. ‘At that time, the situation was really dangerous,’ Kim told the paper. ‘The Clinton government was preparing a war.’ According to Kim, the United States deployed an aircraft carrier off the eastern coast at a distance close enough for its war planes to hit the North's nuclear facilities in Yongbyon. US warships were also ready for a naval bombardment of the nuclear facilities, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) north of Pyongyang, he added. ‘One day, I heard (then US Ambassador James) Laney was about to hold a press conference the following day and announce the withdrawal of relatives of US embassy staff,’ he said to the daily. ‘This is a step the United States usually takes on the eve of a war. So, I called in Laney.’ Kim warned the US ambassador another war on the Korean peninsula would turn all of Korea into a bloodbath, killing between 10 and 20 million people and destroying South Korea's prosperous economy...”
For education and discussion only
Alamo Girl's DSL (Downside Legacy) has a complete timeline. The entire document is a marvel to behold.....the 1994 timeline is here
Quote Of The Day Posted by 11th_VA
My guess would be to take attention off the HillaryCare fiasco.
Geez... clinton is one unstable "leader".
maybe he was on a coke binge?
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