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Dirty Little Secrets
Let the Army Rot
by James Dunnigan
May 30, 2006
Discussion Board on this DLS topic
North Korea appears to have decided to
allow its conventional forces to deteriorate. The amount of money
required to rebuild the aging weapons and equipment is far more than
the north can expect to extort from its neighbors or the United States.
What resources that are available are going into the secret police,
ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. The North Korea leadership is
intent on keeping their tyranny going, because the alternative is death
at the hands of an angry population, or war crimes trails for a long
list of atrocities. South Korea believes that the North Korean
government will eventually undergo a "soft collapse" that the south can
manage. The U.S. fears that North Korea will, in the meantime, sell
missile and nuclear weapons technology to hostile nations and
terrorists. South Korea doesn't care about that, and is more concerned
about an uncontrolled collapse in the north.
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