Re: North Korea - Miscalculation

[<DasHaas@aol.com>]

In a message dated 12/8/2001 4:49:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, ysk@kimsoft.com writes:


> Now the big question is: Can NK hit American cities?   Osama bin laded sure could and did - can Kim Jong Il?


   ysk! 

       One big difference here: North Korea is an identifiable country with an established political and military system.  That presents the US with a much better target than did/does bin Laden.

       Excellent point you bring up in describing how bin Laden--a man and movement with no strategic missiles--still found a way to hit targets on US soil.  One reason I find to ask myself yet again, why is the Bush administration so intent on building a missile shield when we are so much more vulnerable in so many other ways?

Col. Mike Haas, USAF, ret., author
Apollo's Warriors:  US Air Force Special Operations during the Cold War
In the Devil's Shadow:  UN Special Operations during the Korean War