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Doug E Fresh wrote:n. korea has said they will attack pre-emptively if the amerikans don't stop sending troops over there.

you pro-war types can say what you will about n. korea and iraq and how they're a danger to the world, but so far of the three nations involved in these conflicts only one is seeking to further it's agenda through the use of force.

amerika.

suppose the koreans do attack pre-emptively and force the amerikans out of the area. do you honestly believe they will follow up on that attack by invading the us?

because i don't. i have never seen evidence to suggest that they will. and the same goes for iraq.

According to an article published in The Washington Post National Weekly Edition (January 27, 1997), "Kim has followed his father's blueprint for myth-making, using the state's radio and print propaganda tools to take credit for amazing feats. Construction engineers stymied about where and how to build a dam are said to be enlightened by Kim; fighter pilots improve their prowess with instruction on takeoffs and landings from Generalissimo Kim in the control towers. Kim clings to his father's practice of providing "on-the-spot guidance to his people, a phenomenon in which the national leader visits soldiers, farmers, scientists, journalists, film makers and anyone else to impart instant wisdom that solves their most complex problems."

People in North Korea have no idea about the outside world, including the riches of its brother South Korea. North Korean radios and televisions are manufactured to receive only one channel, which broadcasts government programming. The government media paints a negative picture about the rest of world - North Korea is a heaven and other countries are worse. Listening to foreign broadcasts is punishable by execution. International calls are not allowed. Mail is censored. All North Koreans wear the same style shirts. People are required to get travel passes to visit another village.

The U.S. puts North Korea on its list of "rogue" nations, along with Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya. Unlike the other four rogue nations, it possesses nuclear bombs in its arsenal. In 1994, the U.S. and North Korea came close to war over the issue of North Korea's secret plan to build nuclear bombs. But, finally the countries made a deal in which North Korea promised to suspend its nuclear program in exchange for two less dangerous nuclear power plants and fuel oil worth $5 billion, mainly financed by South Korea. But, till now, North Korea has not allowed any inspection of the nuclear plants to enforce the 1994 treaty.

North Korea has about 1,700 Scud missiles. The U.S. has accused North Korea of selling long-range Scud missiles to Iran and Syria, and has helped them set up domestic plants to manufacture its Scud-C missiles. According to U.S. intelligence sources, Iran keeps its Scud missiles in several deep tunnels along its coast line, including on some of its islands in the Straits of Hormuz. This gives Iran the capacity to block the strait, which is a conduit for more than one-third of the world's oil. It is said that North Korea also has developed and is deploying a long-range missile, named Rodong-I, with a range of 1000 km. This makes it capable of reaching all of South Korea and much of Japan. According to the London-based Jane's defense report, North Korea is also trying to develop missiles with a range of 3,500 km that could reach the U.S. territory of Guam.

For the last several years the U.S., Japan and South Korea have been accusing North Korea of drug trafficking and counterfeiting $100 bills. This forced the U.S. to redesign its $100 bills last year and phase out earlier notes designed in the 1920s. In April this year, Japanese police seized $100 million worth of illegal drugs labeled as honey from a North Korean cargo ship. Early this year, in order to raise hard currency, North Korea signed a deal with Taiwan to accept about 200,000 barrels of nuclear waste for tens of millions of dollars. South Korea has lodged a protest to Taiwan as the waste would be disposed of in an area less than 40 miles from its border; if North Korea collapses, South Korea would inherit the problem.

Explosion - This nobody wants, but it is likely the "Dear Leader" will opt for it rather than suffer Implosion. All North Korean defectors who have defected from the North recently, including 74-year-old Huang Jang Yop, ranked 26th in the ruling party hierarchy and a close aide to the late "Great Leader", have made statements that North Korea's dictator and his generals are preparing for war through a massive blitzkrieg. Their plan is to capture Seoul, which is less than 30 miles from the border, within 24 hours and take the whole of South Korea within a week. Members of a U.S. Senate delegation during a visit early this year saw a massive defense exercise in which all vehicles were covered with camouflage netting and people took refuge in shelters. North Koreans had been told that the U.S. and South Korea were going to invade in the near future.

U.S. analysts are saying that if North Korean leaders options are either to see the disintegration of the country due to starvation or to attack the South, they would opt for the latter. Having seen the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. and subsequent fate of its generals and the communist leadership, the North Korean dictator and his generals would not like to see the same happen to them. If they do invade they are not going to lose anything: death through battle would be preferable to death through implosion. According to one high-ranking defector, Kim Jong Il worships Adolf Hitler, who died rather than surrender.

xchrisx wrote:question: where did saddam hussein get his weapons from?