MSNBC has an interesting account of a North Korea missile factory shipment to Libya. North Korea�s major sources of income consist of foreign aid (from western nations as well as loyalist Koreans in Japan), slave labor exports to China (and often to U.S. with a �Made in China� label) � and military hardware and technology sales to dictatorships around the world. Although I am skeptical about its chances for success, North Korea�s latest quest to develop nuclear weapons is a clincher in the case to take it out. No need to send in a large US force � drop a few nukes to take out Pyongyang, and the enslaved North Koreans will take care of the rest (and be eternally grateful to us for it!)
Are nukes really necessary? I think one just has to take out the nuclear plants and the leadership, and that can be done without either nukes OR a ground force.
Posted by: Daniel at August 20, 2003 03:30 PMNo, nukes probably aren't necessary. But they weren�t �necessary� when we used them on Japan either. My point that that in any tradeoff between a bigger bomb and the lives of US soldiers, we have to be clear on where our priorities lie.
Posted by: David at August 20, 2003 05:14 PM