Kim Jong Un: North
Korean Nukes Ready for ‘Pre-Emptive Attack’
by John Hayward 7 Mar 2016
The latest round of saber-rattling from North Korea featured dictator Kim Jong Un ordering his country’s nuclear weapons to be readied for a “pre-emptive
attack.”
Tensions are running high on the Korean peninsula after
the North’s illegal tests of a new nuclear warhead, which they claim was a
hydrogen bomb, and ballistic missile technology disguised as a “satellite
launch.” South Korea has responded with stronger words and deeds than usual,
while the U.N. Security Council imposed the
toughest sanctions in two decades against North Korea on Wednesday.
Pyongyang pushed back by firing a salvo of
either rockets or short-range missiles into the sea, and firing a salvo of
colorful new insults at South Korea’s female president, Park Geun-hye.
A new report from the official North Korean news agency
showed Kim Jong Un watching drills on a new multiple-rocket launcher, which
might be the same weapon that was fired into the ocean this week, and issuing
ominous threats of nuclear confrontation.
He spoke of the need for North Korea to “bolster up
nuclear forces both in quality and quantity,” and “get the nuclear warheads
deployed for national defense always on standby so as to be fired any moment,”
according to Reuters’
transcription of his remarks.
“Now is the time for us to convert our mode of military
counteraction toward the enemies into an preemptive attack one in every
aspect,” said Kim.
While North Korea is unquestionably determined to develop
long-range nuclear strike capabilities, ABC News
notes there is some debate among Western intelligence agencies about whether
the secretive Communist regime has any launch-capable nuclear weapons at the
moment.
It is thought Pyongyang has enough weapons-grade
plutonium for at least half a dozen nuclear warheads, and possibly as many as
16, but it is not clear if they have any nuclear-armed missiles ready to fire.
While a Defense Intelligence Agency estimate from April
2013 declared “moderate confidence the North currently has nuclear weapons
capable of delivery by ballistic missiles,” the DIA admitted the reliability of
its intelligence was “low,” and both the Pentagon and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
later questioned whether North Korea has demonstrated the capability to put a
nuclear missile in the air.
“The threat here is, to me right now, it’s a lot of
bluster,” Philip Yun of the nuclear-disarmament group Ploughshares Fund told CNN. “For them to deliver on a threat, they have to
have intent and they have to have capability. And quite frankly, I don’t think
they have both.”
Yun thought Kim’s nuclear saber-rattling might be meant
for internal consumption in North Korea, to “brandish his credentials” for
“protecting the motherland.”
“They know that if they did a pre-emptive attack or used
nuclear weapons, they would cease to exist,” said Yun, which leads to the
difficult question of just how sane the North Korean
government is, both in the person of Kim Jong Un and collectively, as an
institution.
North Korea
Kim Jong Un is the
leader of North Korea, and met with Dennis Rodman is 2013.
Note: Dennis Rodman met
with Kim Jong Un, and was a player
for the Chicago Bulls.
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Crown and Company is an investor in the Chicago Bulls, and the owner of the Aspen Skiing Company.
Walter Paepcke was
the founder of the Aspen Skiing Company,
the founder of the Aspen Institute
(think tank), married to Elizabeth Paepcke, and Paul H. Nitze’s brother-in-law.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
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was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is a
friend of Michael Douglas.
Walter Isaacson
is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was
the chairman & CEO for CNN.
William A. Nitze
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), Paul H. Nitze’s son,
and was a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
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A. Nitze’s father, Walter Paepcke’s brother-in-law, a U.S.
negotiator for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, an assistant
secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense, and Elizabeth Paepcke’s
brother.
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was Paul H. Nitze’s sister, and married to Walter Paepcke.
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married to Elizabeth Paepcke, Paul H. Nitze’s brother-in-law, the
founder of the Aspen Skiing Company, and the founder of the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
James S.
Crown is the vice chairman for the Aspen Institute (think tank), is
the president of the Henry Crown and Company, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is chairman
for the Henry Crown and Company, a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Henry
Crown and Company is an investor in the Chicago Bulls, and the owner
of the Aspen Skiing Company.
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Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
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Robert S. Osborne
is a member of the Commercial Club
of Chicago, and an EVP & general counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton.
James R. Clapper
was an executive director, military intelligence programs for Booz Allen Hamilton, and is a director
at the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence for the Barack
Obama administration.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. was a managing director at Booz Allen Hamilton, is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Newton N. Minow
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Michael Douglas
is a friend of George Soros, and a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the founder of CNN.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
and the Ploughshares Fund.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
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Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the Ploughshares Fund.
Joseph Cirincione
was a director for nonproliferation for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and is the president of the Ploughshares Fund.
Chuck
Hagel was a director at the Ploughshares
Fund, and is the Defense secretary for the Barack Obama administration.
Rachel Kleinfeld
is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), and was a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a managing
director at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Robert S. Osborne
is a member of the Commercial Club
of Chicago, and an EVP & general counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton.
James R. Clapper
was an executive director, military intelligence programs for Booz Allen Hamilton, and is a director
at the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence for the Barack
Obama administration.
Paul F. Anderson
was a senior partner at Booz Allen
Hamilton, and is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Walter Paepcke was
the founder of the Aspen Institute
(think tank), the founder of the Aspen
Skiing Company, married to Elizabeth Paepcke, and Paul H. Nitze’s brother-in-law.
Henry
Crown and Company is the owner of the Aspen Skiing Company, and an
investor in the Chicago Bulls.
Dennis Rodman was
a player for the Chicago Bulls, and met
with Kim Jong Un.
Kim Jong Un met
with Dennis Rodman is 2013, and is
the leader of North Korea.
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