Saturday, March 30, 2013
San Diego on North Korea's Attack Map
San Diego, California, the state's second largest city, and a city long associated with the U.S. Navy, is on North Korea's seemingly absurd--but seriously disturbing--attack map.
Read more.
Appeasers/engagers and diplomacy-at-all-cost-ers pooh-pooh the map and North Korean threats as propagandistic posturing and bluster.
Maybe so. One can only hope for the best … and prepare for the worst … including, if necessary, preemptively destroying the enemy before it destroys us. As the Talmud teaches, (derived from Deuteronomy 22:26): Habah l'hargecha hashkem l'hargo -- "If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first. However, it should never be done with glee."
Consider the following:
- North Korea has nuclear weapons and has threatened--actually vowed--to use the weapons against the United States.
- North Korea has long-, medium- and short-range ballistic missiles.
- North Korea has one of the world's largest arsenals of chemical weapons and is also believed to have developed biological weapons--in close cooperation with Iran.
- North Korea has one of the world's largest armed forces, including submarines and special forces capable of quickly overpowering South Korean positions.
- North Korea has announced that it has "entered a state of war" with South Korea and that it intends to conduct a "war of national liberation" against the South.
- Nearly 30,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea are within North Korean artillery range. Correctly or incorrectly, the North sees these troops as sitting ducks.
- North Korean missiles fired from North Korean territory can hit U.S. bases on Okinawa, Japan, and Guam.
- While unlikely, it could be possible for North Korean missiles fired from North Korean territory to hit Hawaii, Alaska and California.
- North Korea and Iran are believed to have jointly developed and test-fired ballistic missiles from cargo vessels.There is no known defense against missiles fired into U.S. coastal cities from such vessels, thousands of which approach U.S. waters every day. Nor is there any known defense against a high-altitidue EMP missile strike fired from a seemingly civilian freighter or barge.
- Nuclear bombs and warheads can be concealed in shipping containers.
- North Korea and Iran could be working on FOBS (Fractional Orbiting Bombardment Systems).The U.S. has no known defense against a FOBS missile or pseudo satellite--i.e. nuclear warhead--attack from over the South Pole.
- Iranians have attended every North Korean nuclear and major missile test.
- Iran, which muses openly about "a world without America and Zionism," has threatened to attack the U.S. from the Gulf of Mexico.
Imagine if Al Qaeda in August 2001 Had Announced its Intention to Attack New York City and Kill Thousands of Americans
Regarding North Korean Threats and the US Response
A senior U.S. official says North Korea does not intend to turn its war of words into a shooting war.
Really?
How can the official be so certain?
Why should we believe him?
His main reason for being so complacent, so cocksure that the North is just engaging in "pot-banging" is that the regime continues to promote tourism and trade.
Apparently, the senior official is not familiar with the word deception.
Apparently, he didn't read this North Korean tourism-related story.
Understand that the Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, has consistently been all wrong on both North Korea and Iran. Diplomacy for its own sake has failed. Appeasement and attempts to engage (collaborate with) the rogue states have failed to stop their atomic--and missile--advances.
The world has seen this movie before.
In the years leading up to World War II, the European powers--and the appeasement advocates in the United States--assured their fellow citizens that Nazi Germany had no intention of starting a war, that Hitler would be satisfied with minor territorial concessions.
The appeasers were dead wrong. Appeasement made war inevitable--on Germany's terms.
A North Korean attack on South Korea is much less unthinkable than, say, an Al Qaeda attack on New York City was in early September of 2001, before the 11th day of that month. Imagine if the terrorist group had in July or August of 2001 announced its intention to tear down skyscrapers and slaughter thousands of Americans in Manhattan's financial district.
A "senior official" … or the President himself … would most likely have dismissed the terrorist vow as mere bluster.
Posts
