Monday, September 26, 2005

Clinton Would Nuke N Korea

This from the Korea Times:

The U.S. military conducted a simulation training exercise for a preemptive nuclear attack on North Korea in 1998, according to U.S. Air Force documents obtained by a ruling party lawmaker.
The declassified documents released by Rep. Choi Sung of the ruling Uri Party on Sunday also say that the U.S. deployed strategic nuclear weapons to a U.S. base in Chunchon, Kangwon Province, in 1987. Choi said he received the documents from the Nautilus Institute, a U.S.-based research group on Northeast Asian energy issues, which obtained the documents from the U.S. government through a Freedom of Information Act request.


and:

A squadron of 24 F-15E fighter jets belonging to the 4th Fighter Squadron of the 9th U.S. Air Force participated in the tactical training along with surveillance aircraft, tanker planes and air-to-air refueling tankers, according to a document named ``The History of the Fourth Combat Unit of U.S. Air Force: From January to June 1998.''
It says the F-15E aircraft from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina carried a BDU-38, a real-size model of the nuclear bomb B61, and dropped it on a training ground in Avon Park, Florida.


The "Korean lawmaker" goes on to blame "neocons", though Clinton could hardly be described as "neocon":

``The contents of these secret documents prove how hardliners in the U.S. government, dubbed ``Neocons,'' have prepared a preemptive strike against North Korea in a precise manner,'' Choi said.