Kindgo
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by Hal Lindsey
http://www.hallindsey.com/articles....&ArticleID=1582
Why Is Bush Ignoring North Korean Threat?
Nuclear Chess Match Continues
It is feared that the Iraqi dictator, left to his own devices, will soon have nuclear weapons. And Saddam is believed by all to be crazy enough to use them, if he gets them.
BUT - what about North Korea? Where we THINK Saddam has nukes, we KNOW Pyongyang has at least two and possibly more.
We KNOW that the North Koreans just uncapped one of their nuclear reactors and we KNOW that gives them enough fissionable material - RIGHT NOW - to construct a half dozen more.
And we KNOW that if North Korea put all three reactors on line, they could build sixty nuclear weapons per year.
We also know that is the only reason the North Koreans put their reactors back on line.
We know one other thing. Kim Jong Il, the leader of the North Koreans, is even crazier than Saddam Hussein.
Here's a little background. North Korea has kicked out U.N. nuclear inspectors and says it will reactivate nuclear facilities that US officials believe were used to make one or two bombs in the 1990s. It also has a second, clandestine nuclear program.
The Bush administration is loathe to call it a 'crisis' - in spite of the fact the threat from North Korea is much greater than that posed to Saddam Hussein - or is it?
While the US prepares to invade Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN last week, "It is not yet a crisis that requires mobilization or for us to be threatening North Korea. Quite the contrary. We have been saying to North Korea that we have no plans to invade you."
It is an interesting dance. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is Mohamed ElBaradei. He is downplaying the Iraqi situation, but he characterized the North Korean standoff as a 'serious crisis situation.'
At the same time, we've been assured by everybody from Donald Rumsfeld to the night shift janitor at the Pentagon that we can fight a two front war simultaneously, if necessary.
The question remaining is whether it is indeed necessary.
President Bush has worn the label 'war-monger' ever since he took office. Like all the other labels that have been applied to him by his enemies in the media and Congress, it doesn't quite fit.
While the rest of the world is holding its collective breath over the North Korean threat, Bush appears content to let the situation ride. Why is that?
Actually, you can find the answer on a map. Iraq sits squarely in the center of the Middle East, and Saddam's WMD arsenal makes him the biggest kid in the neighborhood.
Plus he is allegedly giving aid and comfort to al-Qaeda and it is feared they might get their hands on some of Saddam's weaponry.
And nobody else except Washington dares take on Saddam directly for fear of a terrorist retaliatory strike against them in return.
But take a look at North Korea's neighborhood. North Korea borders China, who already has two nuclear powers sitting directly to its west in the nations of India and Pakistan. A third nuclear power -- Russia -- sits directly to the north.
A nuclear North Korea on its southwest border would pretty much have the Chinese surrounded by nuclear powers.
And if Beijing allows the North Koreans to develop nuclear weapons, it will be in a difficult diplomatic position if Taiwan decided it needed nukes of its own.
The only two major powers that have any influence over the North Koreans are the Russians and the Chinese. Neither wants another nuclear power - especially one as unstable as that of Kim Jong Il.
North Korea's missiles can't reach us, but they can reach Beijing and Moscow right now. While America CAN fight a two-front war, that doesn't mean we want to.
And it appears President Bush has calculated a way out of it. At least for now.
It is a calculated risk -- but the one thing the White House can count on is that both China and Russia can be counted on to act in their own best self-interest. And in this case, their self-interest is our self-interest.
Pyongyang thought that uncapping its nuclear facilities while we prepare for war with Iraq would put George Bush the Warmonger in check.
It is beginning to look like maybe President Bush isn't a war-monger at all. But it sure looks like he is a pretty good chess player.
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Kindgo
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