North Korea has tested a low-yield nuclear device with 4% of the destructive power of the bomb that the United States on Hiroshima, Japan after the Second World War.
Some believe that the device was much larger, but may have failed for technical reasons.
We do not know the truth, because the United States has not devoted the resources necessary to know what's really going on. If you are caught, not to be. collection of information is a complicated business.
When Richard Nixon was president, we can recall that one of our ships, the USS Pueblo was blatantly attacked and seized in international waters in 1968 off the coast of North Korea. The 82 crew members was captured and tortured for a period of 11 months before their release was negotiated.
Is there such a thing as institutional memory. The senior members of the Pueblo Army recall the incident well, and still influence our behavior toward North Korea. By the way, President Nixon gave the order to attack North Korea in retaliation for the Pueblo incident. At the time the President considers a show of force was absolutely necessary to deter the Koreans from further provocative acts. Nixon's Secretary of Defense, has not made a presidential directive. At the end of his life, Nixon felt the biggest mistake of his administration's foreign policy was the failure to carry out a retaliatory raid against North Korea for the Pueblo capture. The Pueblo incident has encouraged North Korea ever since.
Both the Clinton and Bush were aware of the Pueblo incident and its aftermath, when you try to set a new U.S. policy towards North Korea's nuclear program. We have 37,000 American troops stationed in South Korea to protect our interests and alliance with South Korea. There is a gradual withdrawal of troops from a place in South Korea peninsula taking.
One has to wonder why we are willing to withdraw its troops from South Korea during a period in which they wish to pursue a process of nuclear development. The answer is that this area of the world is full of dynamite, and if it blows up, do not want to have 37,000 American troops sitting in the middle of it. North Korea is one of the biggest arsenals of weapons of artillery of each army in the world. They are capable of hitting Seoul, the capital of South Korea over the border.
E 'was recently reported that Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the United States has had a private meeting with President Bush. In conversation, the prince told the president that the United States should withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea. Bandar considered too dangerous to leave our soldiers in the midst of a possible confrontation in which our options would be limited. As a band made without troops on the border, if there is problem, is a regional problem. With the troops, you could have thousands of American lives at risk, and becomes a major wars at once.
What must we do to the North Koreans announced that the real test of a nuclear weapon? We must realize that words have power. We must be careful what we say. President Bush announced the 'axis of evil "speech several years ago. He called North Korea and Iraq as two of the three countries. It appears that he began his anti-terrorism campaign on the wrong side of the world.
Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD), while North Korea has gone to live with them. Now we are in a dead end. Our defense policy was amended so that we can not fight a war in a country at a time, while fighting a holding action of a second country. Before holding the power of the Bush administration, we have been in place for fighting two wars simultaneously on two fronts.
The bad guys know our new policy and will make use of all of us is stuck in Iraq, to expand their power bases. Because we are afraid of losing riders, or better yet, get a pilot shot down, we're not making reconnaissance flights that we normally would on North Korea.
The best thing to do now is to understand that if North Korea is a problem for the United States, is a much bigger problem for Japan, China, Philippines and South Korea. This is a regional problem, despite our alliances, and involves treating. One thing to build and detonate a nuclear device, it is quite another to have a long-range missile delivery. North Korea could fairly easily develop a delivery system able to hit the country in its immediate vicinity.
Striking the United States from a distance of 9,000 miles, more is another story, not so easy in reality. Since the states bordering North Korea have the most to lose should be the ones bearing the burden of responsibility for the multilateral talks between the powers involved.
The real deal is that North Korea is a dictatorship that starves its own people regularly for the benefit of managers of small size that has virtually enslaved in the country. This guide is meant to play the cards that you can. What he now has nuclear weapons. They will use this data to optimize any concessions they can from the United States and its immediate neighbors.
We're going to cave and make concessions to North Korea? Of course we are, because that's what superpowers do. It is not appeasement, it is business, and what makes a good deal. Churchill said that "People have friends, nations have interests."
It 's in our interest not to divert from the issue of extricating ourselves from a situation in Iraq winding. It costs us a treasure, and began to eat at the social fabric of our country like Vietnam did a generation ago. We need to put a face good for Iraq and exit. The president may not be aware, but is on a short leash in Iraq. The American people are very intolerant of wars without objectives that last too long, and it is where George Bush is. It is highly doubtful that his party will survive intact to the midterm elections. The country to accept change, even a democratic party that is devoid of ideas.
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