- Dear ABC Lateline,
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- In the ongoing debate over North Korean nukes and WMD
our illustrious leaders appear to be backing on their "intelligence"
belief that North Korea currently lacks ICBM's with sufficient range to
strike Australia. [Let us take it as read that they have some nuclear weapons
and biological and chemical weapons as well].
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- A couple of years ago the North Koreans tested a long
range missile on a trajectory over Japan that splashed down in the north-east
pacific ocean. Various internet reports have surfaced that describe a North
Korean nose cone being found in Alaska. So, they are well on the way to
developing an ICBM.
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- However we are led to believe they are now attempting
to build miniaturised nuclear warheads for inclusion in such an ICBM -
possibly as multiple warheads. Thus we are safe for the time being - until
they develop these small warheads and longer range versions of their ICBM
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- Thus it is currently OK to antagonise them by the planned
piratical acts against their ships and aircraft since they cannot strike
us here in OZ - never mind the poor sods that live in South Korea and Japan
.
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- OZ is safe now because of distance, and we will all be
safer in the future if we sign up with George Bush's star wars anti-missile
defence shield.
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- Or are we ??? Has everyone in Canberra forgotten that
the North Koreans have a well trained navy with commando squads that operate
mini-subs. They also have a large number of freighters capable of moving
such craft to within striking range of US and Australian cities. Most of
our cities (and many in the US) are on the coast.
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- If they can snatch Japanese citizens from coastal towns
they can deliver dustbin sized packages with timers They may even use
flag of convenience ships to disguise the operations - loading nukes off
their shores at night from mini-subs.
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- They are also perfectly capable of moving any big "old
tech" nuclear warheads they have to our cities by other clandestine
means - a la "5th Protocol" - eg. hidden in sea containers. They
could also utilise crude cruise missiles (reportedly tested by the North
Koreans last year) or short range rockets fired from modified freighters.
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- It does not take too much imagination to develop a number
of possible scenarios that end with North Korean retaliation directly upon
our shores. We would not take such arrogant illegal behaviour against our
interests and I doubt that they will either.
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- Fools such as Downer and Co need to forget US style high
tech missile delivery systems and US (vested interest) intelligence reports
and start thinking for Australia and Australians rather than US Neocons
and their financial masters.
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- Provoking a tiger snake with a stick is almost guaranteed
to get you bitten. A safer course of action will be to talk to the hermit
kingdom and give them the safe space non-aggression pact they seek. Kicking
a psycho is going to get an unpredictable but assuredly insane response.
We lived with Russian and Chinese nukes for years and we still do. But
these countries tend to act rationally - North Korea is a very different
proposition. Reduce their paranoia and feed them carrots rather than raising
big sticks.
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- Can we expect to see sanity prevail ??? I suspect not
if the covert intention is to start a world war to initiate a consumption
economy and consolidate your power in the face of a rapidly deteriorating
world economy and an increasingly hostile population of very unwilling
non believers with a rising demand for your own blood.
- Regards,
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- Harry Mason
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