The North Korean terror connection

The West was blindsided by the last Korean War. Developments proceeded for years – we simply ignored them. This column can offer only a flawed solution to the terrible problem of North Korea today. In that solution is evidence that actions – including the lack of them – have unavoidable, and sometimes terrible consequences.

Nuclear weapons are very dangerous. The world's dictators and terrorists will only understand this when they experience firsthand the results of a nuclear accident in North Korea – and contemplate a similar accident at home. The fact that the major powers in the world possess such weapons and delivery systems is bad enough ... their finding their way into the hands of maniacal dictators and Islamic terrorists – followed by nuclear blackmail and the subsequent destruction of major cities – would be a disaster from which mankind would never recover.

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North Korea's most recent ambitions have been evident from the early 1990s. By 1995, Choe Ju-hwal, a North Korean defector to the South, warned that the North was developing missiles capable of reaching United States military bases in Japan. The reaction here at home was a flurry of diplomatic activity, a transfer of cash from the Treasury to pay for a new, non-proliferating reactor, and President Bill Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" proliferation policy which left North Korea uninspected and free to carry on its devilish work. Subsequent developments were predictable.

On Jan. 2, 1999, the Associated Press reported that Korea had deployed medium-range ballistic missiles – just months after test firing a long-range missile over Japan.

On Sept. 20, 1999, United States Defense Secretary Bill Perry warned that North Korea was raising massive crops of opium to support its cash flow needs.

On Jan. 6, 2000, the Washington Times reported that "China is continuing to supply material for North Korea's long-range missile program." Considerable detail was provided.

It's worth repeating: The development and possession of nuclear weapons is extremely dangerous. North Korea would be well-advised to immediately end its program and call for international assistance in dismantling its tiny nuclear arsenal. Otherwise, the likelihood of a catastrophic accident, by whatever means necessary, with the attendant damage to its neighbors, is nearly certain.

The West has little choice. Without such an "accident," the world will undergo forced conversion to Islam and its attendant law within 10 years. Nuclear weapons proliferating into terrorist hands may take up to five years, and the subsequent blackmail payments may buy us another five. If you doubt the Islamists' goals, you might read "Group celebrates 'Magnificent 19' hijackers: British Islamists bent on global conquest plan 9-11 conference."

They are quite open about their goals: "The group said Muslims worldwide will be praying 'for the reverberations' of 9-11 'to continue until the eradication of all man-made law and the implementation of divine law in the form of the Khilafah – carrying the message of Islam to the world and striving for Izhar ud-Deen, i.e., the total domination of the world by Islam.'"