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Thursday, October 05, 2006
Paper Tiger
William Arkin has a very interesting piece up today about North Korea:
Though U.S. intelligence has stated robotically for years that the North already has nuclear weapons, now it appears that the country still has a ways to go to reach that point.

In other words, North Korea is weak and getting weaker, no longer able to sustain its once-feared human waves to invade the South, left instead with its only option of building a force of long-range missiles as a means of protecting itself and extending "deterrence."
Good read the whole thing for the footnotes and proof. He makes a very good case.

The short version of the article is that past diplomatic efforts to contain North Korea have worked, substantially weakening North Korea to the point that they can't really mount much of a conventional army. He also points out that North Korea's desire for nukes is precisely because of their weakness, but that they are much further away from mounting a serious threat than previously thought.

In other words, North Korea is a paper tiger and all bluster.

Like Iraq was.

If true, and I don't have any reason to believe it's not, the only remaining question is whether Bush's dick-wagging foreign policy will fall sucker to another unnecessary insurgent war, this time in North Korea?
Written at 9:20 AM by Greyhair.
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