Heads Up
North Korea, at it again, the world's perpetual pouting child intent on mischief and enjoying the bedevilment of its elder communities. With a sigh of relief we learn that "Dear Leader" is recovering nicely from a stroke, a heart attack, or some other mysterious ailment. What good fortune; he is the devil we know, after all. Some accounts have it that his sons lack his governing abilities, his deep love for his people, his intelligent regard for world order.This is a man whose sensibilities are insufficiently appreciated. Those rough and ready outside influences tread too heavily on his tender sensitivities to criticism. He has, after all, the best interests of his country at heart. And by extension, needless to say, the rest of the world. The rest of the world, after all, goes to great lengths to feed his starving countrymen, taking pity on a population held in bondage to the nuclear intent of their beloved leader.
Several U.S. administrations thus far have identified the threat to world peace inherent in this little dictator's agenda for nuclear power. Not nuclear power as in peaceful domestic energy sources, but the kind of power that issues from the spectre of a huge mushroom cloud hanging menacingly over South Korea, Japan, VietNam, for example. China is not the least bit worried, it would seem, and encourages the raving ambition of their little cousin.
The disabling of the major facilities in North Korea's nuclear complex appeared to be going exceedingly well, to expectations. In exchange for funding, fuel, food. The country's clandestine plans for its weapons program with enriched uranium, an inspiration to Iran and which country indeed, along with Syria, it has gone out of its way to accommodate. As Pakistan extended that courtesy to North Korea, so North Korea magnanimously does to them.
Oops, the plans of hopeful interventionist technical scientists and world leaders do often go astray, unfortunately. Only eight of the eleven disabling tasks undertaken by the team working on Yong-byon's nuclear reactor were in the accomplished stage. And then, poof! Taking unfortunate umbrage at the U.S. State Department unreasonable insistence on labelling a renegade a danger to the world, Dear Leader changed his inconsiderate mind.
Deal's off. Yon-byon is to be re-built. Now it is revealed by impeccable sources that the country has perfected a long-range intercontinental missile with the potential to reach major cities on the U.S. West Coast. Superior, one would imagine, to those released several months earlier, where doctored images revealed collapsed missiles; an unfortunate contretemps.
This, however, represents another, hitherto unknown missile launch site on North Korea's west coast, identified by Jane's Defense Weekly, through satellite images. Complete with a mobile launch pad and 10-story tower in support of truly large ballistic missiles. South Korea's Defence Minister has testified that the launch site is nearing completion.
The economy of that benighted country is in near-collapse. But thanks to the humanitarian instincts of the West and the United Nations, the population will be kept from starvation. A population too demoralized, too weak and desperate to survive, to mount any semblance of opposition to their cruel fate as fodder to the ambitions of a lunatic.
Lunatic, perhaps that's too harsh. How about totalitarian psychopath?
Labels: Technology, Terrorism, World Crises
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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