http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan#Pakistan_army_accused_of_proliferation
On July 4, 2008 he in an interview blamed President Musharraf and Pakistan Army for the transfer of nuclear technology, he claimed that Musharraf was aware of all the deals and he was the "Big Boss" for those deals[36].
Khan said that Pakistan gave centrifuges to North Korea in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army. The uranium enrichment equipment was sent from Pakistan in a North Korean plane loaded under the supervision of Pakistani security officials. He also said that he had travelled to North Korea in 1999 with a Pakistani Army general to buy shoulder-launched missiles from the government there. Asked why he had taken sole responsibility for the nuclear proliferation, Khan said friends, including a central figure in the ruling party at the time, had persuaded him that it was in the national interest. In return he had been promised complete freedom.[7]
Originally posted by rwingettGreat post!
The chance of North Korea waging an offensive war, either conventional or nuclear, is extremely remote. And as long as the US maintains its own nuclear arsenal, it has no real moral justification for demanding that other countries refrain from doing the same. The great concern with the proliferation of third world nuclear arsenals is not that those countrie ...[text shortened]... would be ineffective. The deterrent of "mutually assured destruction" would not be applicable.
Originally posted by Sam The ShamDo you think the West/international community is ready to deputize a quazi communist country, in the form of China, to police any possible threat? It would serve to acknowledge China's emergence as an economic superpower and signal a paradigm shift in terms of the makeup of global strategic security.
No. Not a great post, very short sighted thinking. The threat is that N. korea would launch a missile at Seoul and then swarm across the border.
Or sell/give their weapons to the wrong people.
Originally posted by kmax87N Korea already has sold their missile tech and nuclear tech to Iran -- the Syrian reactor taken out by Israel in 2007 was N Korean built using Iranian funds
Do you think the West/international community is ready to deputize a quazi communist country, in the form of China, to police any possible threat? It would serve to acknowledge China's emergence as an economic superpower and signal a paradigm shift in terms of the makeup of global strategic security.
