How Dangerous Is North Korea?
October 9th 2006 20:34
Taylor Dinerman an author and journalist based in New York has pointed out that although North Korea’s Taepodong missile test was a failure in July,
“Almost everything we know about the vehicle is based on pure speculation. We still don’t know for sure if the Taepodong 1 launch in 1998 that flew over northern Japan was a failed attempt to orbit a satellite or just a weapons test. In any case, one thing is for sure, these missile tests are part of their long-running campaign of psychological warfare against the US, South Korea, Japan, and everyone else.
It could be that soon, any nation with enough money will be able to buy weapons from North Korea that will allow it to threaten any other nation on Earth with, at least, the sort of harassing and occasionally deadly bombardment that the Palestinians are now inflicting on the Israelis. For example, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has long-standing grievances against Belgium; a few Taepodongs could allow them to fire off one or two of these every month just to remind Belgium of their complaints. The same thing goes for Algeria and France or Zimbabwe and Britain. A Third World dictator could gain a lot of cheap nationalist legitimacy from launching a few pinprick Taepodong attacks on faraway former colonial states.
If the Israelis are now expected by the so-called international community not to overreact to a few Kassams landing on their southern towns, then the same restraint will be expected of other nations when Taepodongs start falling on them. The North Korean regime could find it very profitable to encourage a new age of long-range revenge attacks on Western nations whose capacity to strike back is limited by their adherence to treaties and to a belief in “civilized” forms of warfare.
Against these types of attacks, current fairly expensive missile defense systems are of limited use. An impoverished Third World state could get almost as much political satisfaction from forcing a Western nation to use its costly interceptors against a relatively cheap Taepodong ICBM as from actually landing a warhead on an enemy target. We could be entering an age of globalized, intercontinental, low-intensity combat. Is anyone prepared?”
Performing an underground nuclear test is a serious development and low budget military states of whose cheap missiles and dirty nuclear devices threaten the stability of the whole world.
The Asian Stock Market is falling rapidly and this will affect Australia soon as well
http://www.thespacereview.com/article
“Almost everything we know about the vehicle is based on pure speculation. We still don’t know for sure if the Taepodong 1 launch in 1998 that flew over northern Japan was a failed attempt to orbit a satellite or just a weapons test. In any case, one thing is for sure, these missile tests are part of their long-running campaign of psychological warfare against the US, South Korea, Japan, and everyone else.
It could be that soon, any nation with enough money will be able to buy weapons from North Korea that will allow it to threaten any other nation on Earth with, at least, the sort of harassing and occasionally deadly bombardment that the Palestinians are now inflicting on the Israelis. For example, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has long-standing grievances against Belgium; a few Taepodongs could allow them to fire off one or two of these every month just to remind Belgium of their complaints. The same thing goes for Algeria and France or Zimbabwe and Britain. A Third World dictator could gain a lot of cheap nationalist legitimacy from launching a few pinprick Taepodong attacks on faraway former colonial states.
If the Israelis are now expected by the so-called international community not to overreact to a few Kassams landing on their southern towns, then the same restraint will be expected of other nations when Taepodongs start falling on them. The North Korean regime could find it very profitable to encourage a new age of long-range revenge attacks on Western nations whose capacity to strike back is limited by their adherence to treaties and to a belief in “civilized” forms of warfare.
Against these types of attacks, current fairly expensive missile defense systems are of limited use. An impoverished Third World state could get almost as much political satisfaction from forcing a Western nation to use its costly interceptors against a relatively cheap Taepodong ICBM as from actually landing a warhead on an enemy target. We could be entering an age of globalized, intercontinental, low-intensity combat. Is anyone prepared?”
Performing an underground nuclear test is a serious development and low budget military states of whose cheap missiles and dirty nuclear devices threaten the stability of the whole world.
The Asian Stock Market is falling rapidly and this will affect Australia soon as well
http://www.thespacereview.com/article
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