Pentagon Putting Bullseye on Kim Jong il?

There is a lot of activity going on just under the radar regarding the crazy little dictator with the great big bomb that suggests Kim Jong il's days may be numbered.

The United States military is speeding up attack plans against North Korea, and has reaffirmed a pledge to South Korea and Japan to deploy US nuclear weapons in their defense.

A report by Bill Gertz, a superbly-connected Washington Times reporter, says the accelerated military planning includes detailed programs for striking a North Korean plutonium-reprocessing facility at Yongbyon with special operations commando raids or strikes with Tomahawk cruise missiles or other precision-guided weapons.

The war planning effort had been underway for 'months' -- even before Kim Jong il's successful nuclear test in early October.
A Pentagon official quoted by Gertz said the Department of Defense is considering "various military options" to remove the program.

"Other than nuclear strikes, which are considered excessive, there are several options now in place. Planning has been accelerated."

Gertz also reported that a second, senior defense official privy to the effort said the Bush administration recently affirmed its commitment to both South Korea and Japan that it would use U.S. nuclear weapons to deter North Korea, now considered an unofficial nuclear weapon state.

"We will resort to whatever force levels we need to have, to defend the Republic of Korea. That nuclear deterrence is in place," he said.

It appears the whole secret war plan is public information. Other officials said the forces include bombs and air-launched missiles stored at Guam, a U.S. island in the western Pacific, that could be delivered by B-52 or B-2 bombers. Nine U.S. nuclear-missile submarines regularly deploy to Asian waters from Washington state.

The officials said one military option calls for teams of Navy SEALs or other special operations commandos to conduct covert raids on Yongbyon's plutonium-reprocessing facility.

A second option calls for strikes by precision-guided Tomahawk missiles on the reprocessing plant from submarines or ships. The plan calls for simultaneous strikes from various sides to minimize any radioactive particles being carried away in the air.

Planners estimate that six Tomahawks could destroy the reprocessing plant and that it would take five to 10 years to rebuild, said the Gertz report.

General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff assessed the military state of readiness for war with North Korea, saying the 200,000 U.S. military troops in the Gulf have not diminished U.S. warfighting power and 2 million troops are on standby. “And that should not be lost on any potential enemies,� he warned.

General Pace's comments, as well as the leaked war plans, are clearly intended as a final warning to Kim Jong il. Pace warned that the war against the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan had sapped the military of its precision weaponry. That means there would be a lot more collateral damage from unguided gravity bombs.

There are very few options available when it comes to North Korea. North Korea is completely isolated already, so sanctions are unlikely to have any effect.

Because of its isolation, there is no way of effecting regime change short of destroying the regime. Its citizens have been completely brainwashed by Kim's cult of personality.

Huge granite cliffs are engraved with praises for and quotes from Kim and his father, who ruled from 1948 until his death in 1994. Kim's pictures are everywhere.

In terms of conventional forces, North Korea has some scary numbers. A million men, ten thousand tanks, tens of thousands of artillery pieces.

Kim Jong il is a relatively young man who could rule North Korea for another twenty to thirty years.

That is not one of the options on the table.
 

 

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