Tuesday, August 03, 2004

The Silence of the Lames

Bunnyman and Hummelboy are strangely silent about some extremely important foreign policy issues. I, for one would be very interested to know how their administration would handle North Korea and Iran.

About Korea Donald Sensing notes that Jane's (the Bible of the military) has recently pointed out that:

"North Korea is deploying new land- and sea-based ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and may have sufficient range to hit the United States, according to the authoritative Jane's Defense Weekly. ..."It would fundamentally alter the missile threat posed by the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and could finally provide its leadership with something that it has long sought to obtain -- the ability to directly threaten the continental U.S.," the weekly said.Apart from targeting the United States, South Korea or Japan, cash-strapped North Korea might seek to sell the technology to countries that have bought its missiles in the past, with Iran a prime candidate, the article added.Ian Kemp, news editor of Jane's Defense Weekly, said North Korea would only spend the money and effort on developing such missiles if it intended to fit them with nuclear warheads."

And, Iran becomes more deadly by the day. The deafening silence of these (decisive) leaders is noteworthy.

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