Tue, Aug 29, 2006
Would Still Pack Quite A Wallop
What would you say to taking the
warheads off some of America's ICBMs and replacing them with
conventional explosives... then using those missiles to destroy
suspected weapons of mass destruction?
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that's one plan now under
consideration, especially in the case of North Korea.
"They sell anything to anyone," Rumsfeld said during a visit to
Alaska's Fort Greely last week. "They sell our currency that they
counterfeit. They're selling illegal drugs. They're selling basic
missile technologies. There's not much they have that they wouldn't
sell either to another country or possibly to a terrorist
network."
"I think the real threat that North Korea poses in the immediate
future is more one of proliferation than a danger to South Korea,"
he added.
So, how do you counter that? Rumsfeld suggests rearming American
ICBMs with non-nuclear warheads, and use them to target a terrorist
launch site with a non-nuclear missile.
Rumsfeld was standing alongside his Russian counterpart, Sergei
Ivanov, when he made his comments.
Reuters reports the US Defense Chief invited Ivanov to consider
a similar plan, but Ivanov said wouldn't commit to that just yet...
that Russia had concerns about such a plan, and that there may be
other solutions for preemptive strikes -- such as the use of
intermediate-range missiles.
Those types of missiles are currently banned by a treaty
agreement between the two countries, however.
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