North Korean Nuclear Threat tied to Government’s Economic Failure
October 9, 2006
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I have written very little, if anything, ab out
the North Korean nuclear situation on our web pages, because I have never considered it all that important in prophecy. I am sure that South Korea and Japan will be perched on pins and needles from now until Armageddon and, if I was living in these countries, so would I.
I do not expect North Korea to launch a nuclear weapon against anyone prior to the end of this age of the Gentiles. The North Korean system of communistic dictatorship under army control is an absolute disaster economically, and is not capable of ever producing a prosperous type of stable government. This leaves them little choice except to use a threat of nuclear weapons to blackmail food and economic goodies from the governments who will keep the North Korean economy propped up to “barely acceptable.” This will allow the army to stay in power with a lousy economy.
The Leader of North Korea and the army are afraid of a rebellion from within the ranks of the army and the people, who have been living under dire economic stress for some time. Their leader is one of the few seen in North Korean pictures who looks well fed.
It is a country led by a powerful few who worked their way into positions of military power aggressively, and the size of their waistline is one way of singling them out.
North Korea is acutely aware that their launching a nuclear warhead against any other nation would give the United States justification, in the eyes of the international community, to change North Korea into a vast nuclear disaster area within less than a day. Iran is a horse of a different color.
While I do not expect Iran to launch for the same reason, the insane religious fanaticism among some of their leaders in high places, who believe their role is to create “chaos” in the Middle East, such that out of this man-made chaos will arise their version of a Messiah (The Mahdi) – I admit does disturb me.
It is possible they are just insane enough to sacrifice a majority of their population to U.S. thermonuclear hell in the name of Allah, Muhammad, and the Mahdi.
I do, however, believe both North Korea and Iran are unwilling to give America the international justification to destroy them as nations, so I will stick with my conclusion of a conventional, rather than a nuclear war prior to Armageddon.
The series of “headers” from Reuter’s articles concerning how the long North Korean famine stands in 2006 is described from March to May in the first article.
The Jerusalem Post article, which follows the Reuter’s “headers,” gives the Israeli reaction to North Korea’s nuclear test as it relates to them, Iran, the Middle East, and the rest of the world.
Begin March to May 2006 Heading Clippings from Reuters
North Korea Famine
11 May 2006 20:44:12 GMT
North Korea, WFP agree to scaled back aid plan
(Adds U.S. comment, paragraphs 10-11) By Lindsay Beck BEIJING, May 11 (Reuters) – North Korea has agreed to accept aid from the World Food Programme months after it said it no longer wanted …
11 May 2006 02:30:20 GMT
North Korea reverses course, to accept food aid-WFP
BEIJING, May 11 (Reuters) – North Korea has agreed to accept international food aid that will feed 1.9 million in the impoverished country, nearly a year after it said it no longer wanted handouts, …
04 May 2006 09:21:49 GMT
N.Korea rationing raises starvation risk: group
By Jack Kim SEOUL, May 4 (Reuters) – North Korea’s return to food rationing puts its most vulnerable people at risk of starvation because the system is designed to reward the loyal and leave the …
North Korea requests more farm aid from South
10 Apr 2006 03:43:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
SEOUL, April 10 (Reuters) – North Korea, which has shunned help from international aid agencies despite battling chronic food shortages, has requested 300,000 tonnes of fertiliser from South Korea for …
N.Korean defector says disabled newborns are killed
22 Mar 2006 12:13:22 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Jack Kim SEOUL, March 22 (Reuters) – North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist
End March to May 2006 Heading Clippings from Reuters
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
‘Israel has cause for concern over N. Korea’s nuclear test’
Shani Rosenfelder and JPost.com Staff, the JERUSALEM POST
October 9, 2006
“Israel should be very concerned by North Korea’s nuclear test,” Uzi Eilam, former head of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
According to Eilam, “The cause for concern is three-fold. First, as a world democracy, it should be concerned by the threat a North Korean nuclear capability poses to the entire world.
Second, It is certainly possible that Pyongyang would share its nuclear know-how with Iran, in return for a sizeable financial reward. North Korea’s nuclear program is far more advanced than Iran’s. While Iran has only started to produce fissile material, North Korea has done so at least five years ago.”
“Third, Syria, which is also under heavy international pressure, could look at the North Korean example and decide to actively push for its own nuclear capability, taking into account that it would be a great deterrent to alleviate the pressure and get the international community off its back,” Eilam said.
“Today’s experiment means that the North Koreans have successfully produced a device whose core is the heart of a nuclear bomb. In order to re ach th
at level, it must be integrated in a weapons system, whether a bomb or a missile warhead. Since it is known that they have been working on missile technology for many years, it is not unforeseeable that North Korea could achieve nuclear weapons capability in 1-2 years.”
“The international community’s response to the North Korean test,” Eilam asserts, “is of the utmost importance.
The Security Council must impose much harsher sanctions on Pyongyang.”
Labor MK Ephraim Sneh said on Monday that the morning’s weapons test had showed that the West had failed in its efforts to prevent North Korea from developing and experimenting with nuclear weapons.
“It could be a good thing,” Sneh told Israel Radio, explaining that Israeli policymakers and advocates should use the developments in North Korea to convince the international community to “do something [about Iran] before it’s too late.”
The risk posed by North Korea obtaining nuclear capability, Sneh said, is less relevant to Israel than the threat posed
by Iran, which is committed to the destruction of Israel.
Sneh believes that international economic sanctions would be a viable deterrent. While Iran produces crude oil, he said, it lacks a supply of refined petroleum products. In fact, he added, Iran imports some 40% of its gasoline.
“A serious international embargo would be effective,” Sneh asserted.
Unlike Sneh, Dr. Soli Shahvar, an expert on Iran from the University of Haifa, is convinced that economic sanctions would not be an effective deterrent against Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “The only option I see is a serious effort [to affect] a regime change,” he told Israel Radio.
The fact that North Korea reached such an advanced stage in nuclear experimentation – and Monday morning’s experiment was still not tantamount to nuclear weapons capability – could be a strong hint to the Iranians that they are on the right track with their nuclear program, Shahvar said.
“The Iranians are very certain of their direction,” Shahvar continued, and said that he “wouldn’t rule out” the possibility that Iranian representatives had been present at North Korea’s experiment.
North Korea, Shahvar said, is much worse off economically than Iran, which has plentiful energy resources and profits by them. Those same energy resources, he continued, provide the West with a much stronger incentive for cooperation with Iran that with North Korea.
“North Korea’s nuclear experiment must alert the entire world that the next nuclear weapons test could be conducted by Iran,” Shahvar warned.
End Jerusalem Post Article
At some point in time between 2008 and 2012, I expect both Iran and North Korea to have a deliverable nuclear warhead mounted on missiles in North Korea and Iran but, quite frankly, I do not believe they will use them.
Also, I expect the conventional military forces and weaponry of Iran, Syria, Lebanon, the PA, and all of the terrorist groups, to reach levels of quality and quantity sufficient to launch a winning war against Israel at some point in time between 2008 and 2012. I believe these three nations and groups will be supported by the seven nations of Iraq, Turkey, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
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