{"id":199633,"date":"2007-07-09T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/09\/dprk-to-start-fielding-more-advanced-missiles\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T03:05:00","slug":"dprk-to-start-fielding-more-advanced-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/09\/dprk-to-start-fielding-more-advanced-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"DPRK to Start Fielding More Advanced Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/wmd\/library\/news\/dprk\/2007\/dprk-070707-afps01.htm\">will be fielding modern solid propellant missiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a natural development.  Missiles and missile technology are their only real exports, and, absent a nuclear capability (<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">which we don&#8217;t want them to have<\/span>) it is their only credible deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, these weapons are legal.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you have a former Bush administration official *cough* corrupt incompetent *cough* and a US Army general *cough* Bush Toady *cough* acting as if the sky is falling.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean has a very real fear of a sneak attack from the US.  As long as Cheney is anywhere near the levers of power, this fear is justified.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the fear were not justified, the best course of action is to attempt to reduce that fear, rather than stoking it with bellicose and jingoistic rhetoric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Koreawill be fielding modern solid propellant missiles. This is a natural development. Missiles and missile technology are their only real exports, and, absent a nuclear capability (which we don&#8217;t want them to have) it is their only credible deterrent. Furthermore, these weapons are legal. Of course, you have a former Bush administration official *cough* &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,964,978,1042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms-control","category-foreign-relations","category-politics","category-proliferation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}