...In contrast, North Korea has not only the military power
but also the political will to wage total war against the United
States.
North Korea has made it clear that it will strike all US
targets with all means, if the US mounted military attacks on
North Korea.
That North Korea's threat is no bluff can be seen from the
aggressive actions taken by North Korea since the Korean War
armistice, most recent of which is North Korea's attempt to capture
an American spy plane.
In the morning of March 1, 2003, an American RC-132S
spy plane, Cobra Ball, took off from a US airbase in Okinawa,
and cruised along the East coast of North Korea collecting
electronic signals.
The US intelligence suspected that North Korea was about to
test a long-range missile and the plane was there to monitor the
suspected missile launch.
When the US plane reached a point about 193 km from
the coast of North Korea, two MiG-29 and two MiG-21 fighter planes
showed up unexpectedly.
The North Korean planes approached within 16 m and signaled
the US plane to follow them.
The US pilot refused to follow the command and left the
scene posthaste. The US plane was tailed by the hostiles for about
22 min but let the US spy plane go.
There are two key points to be observed here.
First, the hostile planes waited for the US plane at the
Uhrang airbase, located about 200 km from the point of air
encounter.
They knew that the US plane was coming.
The North Korean planes flew 200 km to intercept the US
plane. Did the US plane see them coming?
If it did, why no evasive action? After intercepting
the US plane, the hostile planes dogged it for 22 min.
Why no American planes for the rescue? The
US crew must have informed the base of the danger they were in, but
no action was taken by the base.
If Kim Jong Il had given the command, the MiGs would
have shot down the US plane and returned to their base before the
US could have scrambled war planes.
Second, North Korea intercepted an American spy plane flying
200 km from its coast.
According to the international norm, a nation's territorial
air space extends 19 km from its coast line. The US is the
exception and claims air space of 370 km from its coast line; any
foreign airplane violating this extended air space is challenged or
shot down by the US military...
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USA don't even dare to send fighters to confront the DPRK
jets.
Scared like a mouse.
Invasion of Iraq two weeks away, where got time and effort to
deal with DPRK?
Confront DPRK, start a crisis, Iraq invasion how?
Very shrewd of Kim Jong Il to time his moves at the ripe
time.
He is too kind to USA, let them off easily, only send a
warning.
He didn't sabotage USA's war against Iraq.
