North Korea’s Missile Launches Were Failing Too Often
Note: The linked article basically chronicles how the story took shape. This appears to be the actual story here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;04&#x2F;world&#x2F;asia&#x2F;north-korea-missile-program-sabotage.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;04&#x2F;world&#x2F;asia&#x2F;north-korea-mi...</a><p>-<p>In retrospect, invading North Korea in 2003 would have been a far better choice than Iraq. NK didn&#x27;t have nukes back then, we&#x27;d have avoided destabilizing the Middle East, and the defense industry would still get its blood money.<p>Not to mention North Korea continues to pose an actual WMD threat, they have concentration camps in dire need of liberation, their general populace is basically an ongoing humanitarian disaster, and they continue to pose an ever-increasing threat to global security.<p>All the US had to do was say NK was in cahoots with Al-Qaeda and had provided material support for 9&#x2F;11 or something. War fever would&#x27;ve done the rest.<p>Granted, an estimated 100,000 civilian casualties from shelling in Seoul during the opening hours of the war is a hard pill to swallow. Today&#x27;s threat however is the same deal plus nukes.<p>Then again, we had no qualms blowing away about 6500 Iraqi civilians with our surgical &quot;shock and awe&quot; campaign.[0] Turns out when you drop 2,000lb GBU-31s on civilian targets in the middle of a densely populated urban environment, it tends to kill a whole lot of people. Who knew! The fireworks look pretty on CNN though.[1][2]<p>Of course, enemy civilian lives tend to be far less valuable than allied civilian lives.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shock_and_awe#Casualties" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shock_and_awe#Casualties</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hrw.org&#x2F;reports&#x2F;2003&#x2F;usa1203&#x2F;4.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hrw.org&#x2F;reports&#x2F;2003&#x2F;usa1203&#x2F;4.htm</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hrw.org&#x2F;reports&#x2F;2003&#x2F;usa1203&#x2F;10.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hrw.org&#x2F;reports&#x2F;2003&#x2F;usa1203&#x2F;10.htm</a>