From the 1950s Pentagon to today's Obama administration, the United States has repeatedly pondered, planned and threatened use of nuclear weapons against North Korea, according to declassified and other U.S. government documents released in this 60th-anniversary year of the Korean War.
Wow. North Korea invades South Korea and nearly overruns our forces, and we contemplated using nukes.
China intervenes and drives us south, overrunning many units, and we contemplated using nukes.
North Korea did not make peace after the ceasefire, maintaining large forces capable of overrunning our forces and taking Seoul,while periodically threatening to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire," and we contemplated using nukes.
North Korea develops nukes, and we have thought about using nukes on North Korea.
Selig Harrison, whose head is so far up Kim Jong-Il's butt that he can see light when Kim chews, thinks this history justifies North Korea's drive for nukes:
Korea specialists generally accept Pyongyang's stated rationale that it sought its own bomb for defensive reasons — "as a response to the U.S. deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea," says author Selig Harrison.
To say I have no respect for Harrison would be an insult to people for whom I have no respect.
Remember, that our option to use nukes was in response to possibly losing a conventional war with North Korea--that they started or threatened to renew. And further recall that even when at war, we did not in fact use nukes on North Korea.
Yet our record justifies North Korean pursuit of nukes? Riiight.
