Obama’s deadly inaction on North Korean nuclear missiles

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Washington Times:

While foreign policy failed to rise to prominence during the election, the United States will not be able to escape the price of foreign policy failure. One crisis that started during President Obama’s first term, which could “explode” during his second, is that of China’s blatant contribution to a North Korean nuclear missile capability.

 

 

On Oct. 8, the North Korean Central News Agency for the first time claimed North Korean missiles could “strike” the “U.S. mainland.” That same day in Washington, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland brushed off the claim, saying, “Rather than bragging about its missile capability [North Korea] ought to be feeding its people.”

 

Considering the tale that began unfolding last April, it is possible to conclude that North Korea may very well have a missile with sufficient range and payload to carry a small nuclear weapon as far as Anchorage, Alaska (population 296,000). If it has indeed succeeded in developing a new 5,500km range missile, which it would need to reach Anchorage, it is very likely that Pyongyang received significant help from its one and only ally, China.

 

 

On April 15 of this year, North Korea held a large military parade, which for the first time, featured a large, three-stage missile carried by a new 16-wheel transporter-erector-launcher (TEL). Chinese military enthusiasts on the Internet were among the first to identify the TEL as a version of the WS2600 made by the Sanjiang Space Special Vehicle Corporation of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC). CASIC and its TEL-making subsidiary produce a family of medium-range and short-range solid-fuel ballistic missiles for China’s People’s Liberation Army, and are a key source of technology for Pakistan’s intermediate-range and short-range solid-fuel ballistic missiles.