that should scare the living shit out of you.
I perused Soldiers for the Truth earlier tonight and found this little gem.
War with North Korea Is Possible by Robert W. Koontz, dated 6/9/04.
More below the fold....
Here are the paragraphs that got my attention.
North Korea recently indicated that the United States flew almost 200 intelligence missions over its country during the month of May. This may not be a precisely accurate number, but the fact remains that it is possible that the United States is gathering intelligence at a very stepped-up rate over North Korea. North Korea has recently indicated that it has a strong belief that United States is preparing to attack.
There appears to have been significant diplomatic activity in the last few months that has centered around what might be an almost last-ditch attempt to bring the North Korean situation to a peaceful conclusion. Also, North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il, visited with leaders in China recently.
Historically, China has been North Korea's patron, and North Korea has historically been viewed as a surrogate for the PRC. But, of late this kind of thinking has not been invoked. China provides North Korea with a very large amount of food and energy resources and could strongly influence or even force North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons program if China would decide to do so. That is conventional thinking, at least.
Based on this and other sensitive information, my conclusion is that war with North Korea could occur by the end of the summer or in that time period. Many of the U.S. forces needed for this are already in place, and more are being dispatched in surge.
I also conclude that such a war would quickly escalate to a nuclear conflict and also would see the use of chemical and bacteriological agents after we first use conventional weapons to attack North Korea's nuclear sites.
Seoul could be lost, as could Tokyo. But as many as 100 U.S. nuclear weapons might be used to keep this from happening.