Mugatu: Who cares about Derek Zoolander anyway? The man has only one
look for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same
face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

    --Zolander

By SHELTON BAUMGARTNER
Ahssa! Editor

This is just too rich. I just read this in The New York Times.

    U.S. Aide Sees Nuclear Arms Advance by North Korea
    By DAVID S. CLOUD and DAVID E. SANGER

    WASHINGTON, April 28 - The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency
said Thursday that American intelligence agencies believed North Korea
had mastered the technology for arming its missiles with nuclear
warheads, an assessment that if correct, means the North could build
weapons to threaten Japan and perhaps the western United States.

    [....]

    When asked by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York during a
hearing on Thursday whether "North Korea has the ability to arm a
missile with a nuclear device," Admiral Jacoby responded, "The
assessment is that they have the capability to do that, yes ma'am."

    [....]

    Building a nuclear warhead that can be delivered by a missile
requires the technical sophistication to make it small and light. North
Korea has never conducted a test that would prove it could manufacture
a warhead, though in recent days anxiety has risen in Washington and
among North Korea's Asian neighbors that the country could conduct a
test in an effort to force the world to deal with it as a nuclear
state.

    [...]

    North Korea is considered one of the most opaque intelligence
targets for American analysts, and the absence of reliable human spies
has made it more difficult to understand the progress of its program.

    Admiral Jacoby said North Korea's ability to deliver a nuclear
warhead to the continental United States remained "a theoretical
capability" because its Taepo Dong 2 missile had not been flight
tested. But he added that American intelligence agencies judged that a
two-stage Taepo Dong could strike parts of the American West Coast and
that a three-stage variant could probably reach all of North America.

Well, although people may think that I'm "taking crazy pills" by
suggesting that maybe, just maybe, Something Bad might happen in my
backyard sooner rather than later I suggest they read the above quotes
again...and again.

When the Ahssa! staff first came to Korea, I kept telling people that,
"Before our first year in Korea is finished, the State Department is
going to tell all American expats to leave Korea because of the high
risk of war between North Korea and the States."

I stand by that statement.

Our first day in Korea was July 22, so we still got a few more months.

And even though it would really screw up my life, maybe even put me in
serious jeopardy of being killed, I think the U.S. has to do SOMETHING
sooner rather than later simply because things have gotten so bad. Or
put another way -- while we were dickering around in Iraq, the real
enemy with actual WMD has gotten to the point that we need to break
open a can of preemptive whoop-ass.

If North Korea wants to pick a fight with Miguk, then lets rumble.

The reason I can support this war against North Korea and not the
invasion of Iraq is simple -- because I care about the people of both
North and South Korea, I care about the U.S.A and sometimes you gotta
break an egg to make an omelet.

We invaded Iraq because of oil, ego and geopolitical stupidity.

Meanwhile, with Korea the moral choice is clear -- the longer the DPRK
exists, the closer America is to having a nuclear device detonated on
(or over) its soil in the near, near future. We must do something --
militarily or otherwise -- before a city on the West coast get zapped
or Grand Central Station becomes a big whole in the ground.

Maybe I need to go up to the DMZ before it's not there anymore....