North Korea's War Strategy
of Massive Retaliations against US Attacks
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3099.htm
THE REALITY OF MISSILE
DEFENSE
WASHINGTON (AP) _ When the subject is whether the United States
needs a missile defense system, Rep. Mark Kirk harks back to a
haunting night in the Pentagon's intelligence
center.
As a Naval Reserve lieutenant commander, Kirk was the sole Navy man on duty
when North Korea unexpectedly launched a test missile in
1993.
``Suddenly an
alarm went off,'' Kirk, R-Ill., said recently of
that sweat-soaked night. A dozen terrifying minutes passed
before officials concluded the missile was not a
threat.
Kirk was horrified that only two options were available in case of
a real attack to let a U.S. city be destroyed and millions of
Americans be killed with no response, or to retaliate and kill
millions of foreigners as well.
Like Kirk, other lawmakers and administration officials, holding
fast to the idea that experience is a great teacher, often cite
their backgrounds and trips to far-flung lands to bolster their
views on missile defense.
In Kirk's case, since that night in the Pentagon, he has advocated
a third option: knocking the incoming missile out of the sky...
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2001/The-Reality-of-Missile-Defense/id-578bdf30155466f2c48e69eebe4c7fd2
Around mid-1990 I also read an official ranking of military powers
across the globe.
At that time President Bush Sr. stated that Iraq had the “fourth
largest” force in the world. However, classified US Army analysis
indicated that Iraq
wasn’t even in the top ten in terms of strength – but North Korea
was. The Army had concluded even then, when Iraq had
a far stronger military than it does now, that North
Korea was a more powerful enemy. In other words,
North Korea is,
and has been for many years, the threat that the US government has
been making Iraq out to be. Furthermore, while
Saddam Hussein was our ally in the Middle East for many years,
North Korea has always been our enemy – an enemy that’s been
killing our soldiers and threatening invasion of South Korea for 50
years…
Around mid-1990 I also read an official ranking of military powers
across the globe.
At that time President Bush Sr. stated that Iraq had the “fourth
largest” force in the world. However, classified US Army analysis
indicated that Iraq
wasn’t even in the top ten in terms of strength – but North Korea
was. The Army had concluded even then, when Iraq had
a far stronger military than it does now, that North
Korea was a more powerful enemy. In other words,
North Korea is, and has been for many years, the threat that the US
government has been making Iraq out to be. Furthermore, while
Saddam Hussein was our ally in the Middle East for many years,
North Korea has always been our enemy – an enemy that’s been
killing our soldiers and threatening invasion of South Korea for 50
years…
http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/03/the-history-of-us-relations-with-north-korea/
stop copy-and-pasting articles lah. I want your views, not some
other people views
