Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a Nuclear Dilemma
Stopping only briefly to consider the hilarious irony of Colin Powell upbraiding another country’s government for making “bellicose statements” at the US/North Korean summit in Beijing, and ignoring the worrying murmurs about “disputes over translations” (I’d be wanting better ground for starting a conflict than ?Well, Sir, the Koreans might be saying “launch now” but frankly, they might be ordering take-out?), it seems like North Korea has admitted to the US that they have nuclear weapons, and is threatening to show them that it does, possibly by testing them.
Working along the logical line that the US seems only to attack countries that don?t seem to be an international threat (and which have nice fat supplies of crude oil), North Korea has played the US administration like a piano, leaving them with two options: backing down after naming North Korea as one country in the “axis of evil” by allowing them to keep their weapons, or going to war with a nuclear-equipped?and highly volatile?state.
I can’t see the US actually attacking North Korea - fire so much as a pea-shooter over the border, and the North Koreans destroy Seoul. They have enough 500k-range Scuds to blow the shit out of pretty much anywhere in the South - see Operation Nukorea for some stats-saturated Flash art futurology.
Somebody say Mutually Assured Destruction?
Posted by Jack at 2pm on 25.04.03
Well, exactly; that’s what I meant. The US have really screwed themselves on this one. Still, nice to be back to the old cold war days. How many minutes to midnight is it these days?
Posted by Leon at 4pm on 25.04.03