I have long wondered why we have shown
so much interest in Iran achieving the capability to make a nuclear
weapon, whilst watching North Korea flaunt the possession of such a
weapon.
The Korean War was never resolved, and
until recently was in a state of truce with it's southern half, the
Republic of Korea.
Even without access to military
intelligence, I am aware that Seoul is well within the range of
artillery from the North, and they claim a “million-man” army
that would easily repeat the mistake of Grandpa Kim, by attacking the
South.
I suppose our reluctance to deal with
North is because of China. But since the early 1950's, China has
become a global trading partner, accepted some reforms and have
become a lender of money to the United States.
I have written in the past of my
friendship with a retired U.S. Army Ranger, and our long discussions
about the Army he served. As a special forces operator, he was
inserted into Iraq for months before he was painting command and
control target for our “smart bombs” during the first Gulf War.
He said that if we had seen the news on
CNN, that his team probably had been “boots on the ground” for
months. One must assume these practices are still in force.
Infiltrating special forces operatives
into a closed society, like the North Korea society would probably
not include Anglo, or Black troops. But, we know that the Marines of
the Republic of Korea (South Korea) are know world-wide as a highly
trained group and called “some bad MFers” by their peers in the
Rangers. I would like to believe that some operatives already are
infiltrating the North, and have been in deep cover assignments for
years.
I refuse to think that our government
have not developed a number of options to quickly and decisively
respond to any overt action by the Kim dynasty of the North.
I wonder if the well-trained snipers
have the green light to put a .50 caliber round squarely in the skull
of young Kim, should he acquire the target in the scope of his
Barrett rifle. I hope that ROK special ops teams are ready to paint
targets with lasers so we can surgically take our command and control
sites, like we did in Baghdad in 1991.
But I would also think that if we could
load up cargo planes with bags of rice, MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) and
copies of the Seoul newspapers, and fly into North Korea and drop
skid loads into population centers—military options would not be
necessary. Korean people are the same on both sides of the
De-Militarized Zone.
Although a whole generation has been
raised up under an oppressive Stalinist regime, they are also hungry
for food. With a full belly, and a newspaper full of truth, they
might not be so interested in flooding over the border to kill their
relatives.
