[Colin Glassey] North Korea
I'm getting a bit worried about North Korea. While I agree that it is not the same as Iraq, the prospect of this country producing multiple nuclear bombs per year for the next decade worries me. North Korea sells its missiles to other countries (Yeman most recently). North Korea seems to have helped Pakistan (and according to Debka.com, Iran) with their nuclear weapons programs. The CIA estimates that North Korea has one or two (untested) nuclear bombs already. With the raw materials at Yongbang they could make 6 more within a year. If the Yongbang nuclear plant goes at full blast, they could make six or more nuclear weapons per year as long as they run that nuclear plant. Given that North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Ill is a in total control of the country and that North Korea is in desperate economic straits, it seems likely that North Korea would attempt to sell these weapons to the highest bidder. Any terrorist Islamist group would kill to have such a weapon.
Bottom line: North Korea can not be allowed to develop more atomic bombs. This means we must destroy their ability to build more bombs. Based on the last 8 years of deception, it is clear that treaties are of no use in halting their activities. I don't see much alternative to sending a number of cruise missiles into Yongbang and other North Korean weapon production facilities. I don't think this will result in a North Korean attack on South Korea as that would be suicide for the North Korean government. However, I can't be sure the dictator will not choose the stupid path and the resulting war would be horrible.
In the short term, the countries most threatened by North Korea's nuclear bombs and missiles are South Korea and Japan. But in the medium to long term, the entire West is threatened because the growing chance that North Korea will sell one (or more) of their nuclear bombs to a terrorist group.
We can wait till after Iraq is defeated, but we don't have years. In fact I think we have to bomb North Korea in less than a year. Yea.
11:40:23 PM 
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