On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:03:57 -0700 "Steven Hertzberg"
<mailinglist at navari.com> writes:
> Why announce this now? Doesn't the timing of this seem odd?
>
> Steven
The impression that I have been getting from the evening news broadcasts is that the Bush Administration only announced this with the greatest of reluctance, since they were said to fear that this might derail their plans for invading Iraq.
If North Korea has the bomb, that ultimately has to impact the US strategic policy in regards to Korea, (the US having many thousands of troops stationed in South Korea) as well as Japan, since this means that North Korea may well be on the way to fashioning an effective deterrent to attacks by US forces. That in turn, should over the long run give encouragement to other small countries for acquiring their own nuclear weapons as well, as a deterrent against attack by the number one "rogue state" - namely the United States - which has arrogated to itself the right to force "regime changes" on to any country that it deems as requiring them.
Jim F.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Robert
> Dean
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:12 AM
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> Subject: A new Korean War?
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>
> Well this is messed up...North Korea's got the bomb....Now what?
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37481-2002Oct16.html
>
> The North Korean government has acknowledged for the first
> time that it has been secretly developing nuclear weapons
> for years in violation of international agreements -- and
> that it possesses "more powerful" weapons, as well -- Bush
> administration officials said last night.
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