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Hillary Clinton: The mouth that roars

Liberty & Power
by CJ Maloney

05/22/10

As if America’s military wasn’t battered enough, it seems US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is angling to involve it in yet another conflict, this one on the Korean Peninsula. Considering that the American military has already lost a war on that very same piece of ground (and the fact that her chosen adversary, North Korea, most likely is nuclear armed) you’d imagine she’d be a bit more reluctant to throw our hat (and soldiers) into the ring. That, though, would require a sense of restraint and diplomacy, something Mrs. Clinton has never been known for...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/126959.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Leave the Koreas to the Koreans
http://www.lewrockwell.com/snyder-joshua/snyder-joshua23.1.html

US Out of Korea
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Analysts Question Korea Torpedo Incident

By Jeff Stein

How is it that a submarine of a fifth-rate power was able to penetrate a U.S.-South Korean naval exercise and sink a ship that was designed for anti-submarine warfare?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25568.htm



North Korea says South faked sinking of warship

North Korea's powerful National Defense Commission accused South Korea today of faking the sinking of a warship for which Pyongyang has been blamed and warned that the Korean peninsula was heading to "the brink of war."

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100528/BREAKING/100528006?source=rss_breaking



War on Korean Peninsula: High Tension Prompts Scenarios

How might a shooting war start? Defense analysts and military sources in Seoul and Washington agree that an outright, all-out attack by either side is unlikely.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100526/wl_time/08599199192800



Russia wants '100% proof' N.Korea sunk ship

Russia will not support efforts to punish North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship until it is fully convinced Pyongyang was behind the incident, a foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100527/wl_afp/skoreankoreamilitaryrussia



Did an American Mine Sink South Korean Ship?

In the recent U.S.-China strategic talks in Shanghai and Beijing, the Chinese side dismissed the official scenario presented by the Americans and their South Korean allies as not credible.

http://tinyurl.com/36k8qaf



US Professors Raise Doubts About Report on South Korean Ship Sinking

By Akiko Fujita

Researchers J.J. Suh and Seung-Hun Lee say the South Korean Joint Investigation Group made a weak case when it concluded that North Korea was responsible for sinking the Cheonan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25909.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The sinking of the Cheonan: Another Gulf of Tonkin incident
http://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-another-gulf-of-tonkin-incident/

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The whole story of the South Korean government as a false account?

Blogs and other online media challenge the claims that North Korea is responsible for the sinking of the Cheonan.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32728/1.html



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By Michael Parenti

The Pyongyang leadership seems to know something about US global policy that our own policymakers and pundits have overlooked. In a word, the United States has never attacked or invaded any nation that has a nuclear arsenal.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22879.htm



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By Mike Whitney

After seven years of nonstop belligerence and saber rattling, the Bush administration has given North Korea everything it has demanded. In return, the US gets nothing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20204.htm



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By Noam Chomsky

The official story right now is that after having been forced to accept an agreement on dismantling its nuclear weapons facilities, North Korea is again trying to evade its commitments in its usual devious way-"good news" for superhawks like John Bolton, who have held all along that the North Koreans understand only the mailed fist and will exploit negotiations only to trick us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19856.htm



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Even if Russia and China had been willing to endorse robust sanctions, it is unlikely that such measures would convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons or dismantle its nuclear facilities. Sanctions have a poor record of getting regimes to abandon high-priority policies, and North Korea's nuclear program clearly falls in that category.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6767


From Information Clearing House

Pentagon targets Kim’s nuclear sites

THE Pentagon is speeding up plans for possible military strikes on North Korea’s nuclear programme as concern mounts that Arab states are also looking to acquire nuclear technology

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2437937,00.html



Perry: U.S. might use force on DPRK

Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry warned Saturday that the United States might be forced to take military action against North Korea if China and South Korea do not agree to apply "coercive action" in urging North Korea to scrap its nuclear ambitions.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/world/20061105TDY01005.htm


From Information Clearing House

Nach einem Zeitungsbericht könnte das Abrücken Chinas von Nordkorea die US-Regierung zu einer aggressiveren Politik gegen den Staat auf der "Achse des Bösen" bestärken.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23894/1.html