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...officially began the drive today for sanctions against North Korea, proposing an arms embargo in the United Nations. But the move stopped well short of using the biggest sticks against Pyongyang. Not included in the sanctions: shutting off oil exports to the country, as well as halting the flow of funds from Korean expatriates living in Japan, a major source of Pyongyang's foreign currency. Even as the U.S. initiated the lengthy process of imposing an international reprimand, North Korea suddenly appeared more accommodating. The Communist regime feted former President Jimmy Carter in the capital. And at least...
...dramatic success of Western air forces in the Gulf War. There is little question that modern U.S. fighters, rapidly brought up to 500, can quickly clear the skies of North Korea's large but obsolescent squadrons of MiG-21 and MiG-17 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...
...strikes on Pyongyang might prove trickier. North Korean facilities are heavily defended by antiaircraft guns and long-range SA-5 missiles, with many of those deeply dug into the ground. The most urgent job for aerial forces would be to blunt the North's offensive with antiarmor smart bombs and cluster bombs. Southern airfields have strengthened their defenses, and the arrival of Patriot missiles should help fend off lethal Scuds...
...better idea of the capabilities of its allies in the South than its enemies to the North. But Washington is in the dark about how % well the North might attack. Virtually all the military analysts studying the battlefront acknowledge that hard information about the quality of Pyongyang's forces is scanty. "Compared to North Korea, the former Soviet Union was a duck-soup intelligence target," notes a Pentagon's analyst. "Here, we just don't know much...
...acknowledges Eliot Cohen, a war-fighting expert who is frequently consulted by Pentagon officials, "until the shooting starts, nobody really knows what's going to happen." Much depends on the will and determination of the North Koreans. And that is the piece of the puzzle neither Washington nor Pyongyang can calculate with certainty...