North Korea Watch: Former Vice President Mondale Supports Preemptive Strike Against North Korea
Former Vice President (under Jimmy Carter) and 1984 Democrat Presidential candidate Walter Mondale debates President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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Former Vice President Walter Mondale says he supports a pre-emptive U.S. strike against a North Korean missile that is raising nuclear fears around the globe.
Earlier this week North Korea announced it was preparing to test a missile that could reach United States mainland. Tensions rose further when the North Koreans put fuel into the missile, and continued to insist that a test firing was imminent.
Mondale said on WCCO-AM Friday that the United States should tell North Korea “defuel that missile. It has three boosters. Dismantle it and put it back in the sheds. Because if you’re getting ready to fire this, we’ll take it out.”
Mondale, who’s also a former U.S. ambassador to Japan, calls the North Korean missile “one of the most dangerous developments” in recent history.
“Nuclear weapons can destroy hundreds of millions of people in one strike – destroy major cities -it is the danger of our time,” Mondale said. “Here’s this bizarre, hermit kingdom up there, with a paranoid leader getting ready to test a missile system that can hit us. We’ve got to stop it.”
And wasn’t Mondale against the Strategic Defense Initiative and National Missile Defense? But, this is the second Democrat in a few days that has urged the President to preemptively strike North Korea.
“This is such a legitimate thing for the United States to do,” Mondale said. “The nature of the threat is so serious that I think we should knock it out right there if they won’t stop.”
President Clinton’s defense secretary, William Perry, advocated such a pre-emptive strike in The Washington Post. Current National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley brushed aside Perry’s suggestion, saying he hoped that North Korea would see the unanimously negative reaction from the international community to the test and return to the negotiating table.
Now, one has to ask if Mondale and Perry are providing diplomatic cover for President Bush – noting the severity of a potential nuclear missile launch against the United State mainland?
Or are the providing disinformation for North Korean consumption?
Stay tuned……
A commercial satellite photo of North Korea’s Nodong missile launch site taken on by a Digital Globe satellite and annotated and released by analysts at GlobalSecurity.org on May 24, 2006. The United States and Japan warned North Korea on Monday against a missile launch that experts say could reach as far as Alaska and threatened harsh action if the test flight goes ahead.
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