Beat North Korea with a bellyful

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.