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U.S. Can't Rule Out N.Korea Strike, Rumsfeld Adviser Says

Reuters - Wednesday, June 11, 2003; 4:32 PM
By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should be prepared to destroy North Korea's Yongbyon reactor if necessary to keep Pyongyang from trafficking in nuclear weapons, an influential member of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's advisory panel said on Wednesday.

"Whether we can effectively mobilize a coalition -- including China, Russia, the South Koreans, the Japanese, ourselves -- and so isolate them that they will abandon this program, that remains to be seen," said Richard Perle, an architect of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

"That's certainly the preferable way to deal with it," he added in a speech to a conference on Iraqi reconstruction.

"But I don't think anyone can exclude the kind of surgical strike we saw in 1981," he said, referring to Israel's surprise air attack that destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad on June 7, 1981. "We should always be prepared to go it alone, if necessary."

The administration of President Bush has branded North Korea part of "an axis of evil" with Iran and pre-war Iraq and wants Pyongyang to ditch its nuclear program.

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OMFG!! Richard Pearle rises form the dark to start another campaign of death and destruction.

God help us all.

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posted by BadGimp @ 6:39 PM