Wednesday, October 12, 2005

William M. Arkin: South Korea's Response to CONPLAN 8022-02 for Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike Against North Korea

South Korean government officials are all in a dither about disclosures of a U.S. contingency plan to undertake preemptive attacks on North Korea despite the fact that preemption is the official U.S. national security policy and North Korea is a charter member of the evil club. Secretary of State Condi Rice denies -- while in Kyrgyzstan speaking to U.S. troops at a U.S. military base -- that the U.S. has any plans to have military bases in central Asia.
First Korea, where opposition legislator Kwon Young-kil of the Democratic Labor Party in South Korea claims to have been leaked a copy of OPLAN 5027-04, the core operations plan for war on the Korean peninsula.
On Monday, Kwon told the National Assembly that the plan envisages getting rid of the North's communist regime in a pre-emptive strike and destroying North Korean military.
..."The United States is babbling that it has no intention to attack North Korea and that the nuclear issue should be resolved peacefully," Pyongyang said.
Pyongyang said the new plan, CONPLAN 8022-02, shows that the US has "concretized" its plan for a nuclear strike into an actual operations plan. I was the first to reveal the details of this global strike plan in the Washington Post.

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