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...deliver troops to shore by boats and helicopters; and the Spartanburg County, designed to put tanks and other heavy equipment ashore. They join another helicopter carrier, the Wasp, with 650 Marines aboard, already stationed in the area. Along with combat-ready Marines, these vessels are crammed with an arsenal of armed helicopters, howitzers and armored vehicles. "Ships take days to get to Haiti, but airplanes take only hours," one war planner says. "With these ships in the neighborhood, we've got enough to invade. We're good...
...sufficient reason to be concerned. Though Kim Il Sung has not explicitly said he would respond to sanctions by invading South Korea, it is a chilling fact that he did invade once before. For his part, Clinton has vowed that North Korea cannot be allowed to acquire an atomic arsenal. A nuclear-armed Pyongyang could not only frighten Japan and South Korea into building the Bomb but also might be willing to sell atomic weapons to any rogue states that would pay, such as Iran and Libya...
...West has little idea what Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il, the designated successor, are up to. Are they bent on extorting the best combination of diplomatic and economic benefits for a pledge of good behavior, or are they simply determined to build an atomic arsenal? Donald Gregg, a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, argues, "The North Koreans want a face-saving way out of the corner into which they have painted themselves." He thinks the U.S. ought to specify exactly what benefits the North will reap if it gives up its nuclear program and also...
...Stalinism in North Korea have died out. In Europe, Clinton was reviewing options with his foreign policy aides, trying to anticipate moves for next week and next month. If Kim Il Sung is staking the survival of his regime and his nation on the building of a nuclear arsenal, sanctions are not likely to change his course. And for Bill Clinton and the other world leaders who see nuclear proliferation as a deadly peril to the world, the costs of backing away from the effort to stop North Korea would be enormous...
...fighters. B-52s would carpet-bomb Pyongyang's advancing troops 12 hours after they crossed the DMZ. While there are only 72 U.S. F-16s in the South now, warplanes from Japan, Alaska and nearby carriers would arrive within hours of an attack, including the cream of the U.S. arsenal: radar-eluding F- 117A Stealth fighters and F-15E strike jets. The U.S. would also rely on sophisticated radar to pinpoint the enemy's artillery tubes and take them out with artillery salvos...