Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Bombs Over Pyongyang (Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!)

No letter tonight, just a little info that I felt was important to post in the wake of N. Korea's missile tests today. I wasn't at all surprised by the immediate outrage the world over at Kim Jong Il's defiant act. Outrage led, of course, by our always straight-forward, truthful friends to the north, the U.S. of A. North Korea, I'm sure, is frightened by the U.S. (as I believe many countries are), but I doubt that anyone, save the North Koreans, feel any safer with them having WMDs, Nukes, the Last Mushrooms, Body Dusters, Texas Boom-Booms, or whatever we're calling them now. Do they have the right? Fuckin' A they do, but as much as I'd love to be part of the generation that gets to see the planet's last days (seriously, you have to admit it would be pretty sweet) I don't really want to rush it. So Pyongyang's got the bomb, they're testing the range of their delivery systems (way faster than UPS by the way. The only way to send a package is by Scud-mail.) and pissing everyone off in the process. Here's the catch; Where'd they get the plans? The materials? Who funded it? Why weren't they stopped?

The answer starts with Dr. A.Q. Khan of Pakistan. Khan is the cat who figured the bomb out for the Pakistanis with a fresh pile of cash for research and construction filling his pockets every week. After cooking up some fine, working human extinguishers for his home country to hold India at bay with, Khan held a yard sale, selling blueprints, materials, the works to North Korea and Libya. Cheap. This was supposedly found out in 2004 when Libya's Muammar Gaddafi let it slip and the U.S. government acted astonished at the discovery. In actuality it was reported in 2001 by the U.K.'s Guardian Press, but was quickly dismissed by U.S. and British officials as being a ludicrous accusation. Why? Two reasons. The first of which was the threat of bad press, because FBI agents in November, 2001 were asked to back off of their investigation into Khan's dealings. If people were to have found out that the bomb had gotten to Kim Jong Il because intelligence lines were cut by the Whitehouse, heads would have rolled. The second reason was the money trail from Khan's research and development and where it led to (also why the investigations were halted). Can you guess? If you guessed the Bush administration you weren't far off. If you guessed the Saudi Royal Family, disco, baby! You win an all expenses paid trip to oblivion for you and 80 billion of your fellow humans. The investigation was called off because you don't fuck with the strongest nation in OPEC until you've seized control of Iraq (the second strongest), sold off all of it's oil reserves thanks to foreign instated privitization laws, and brought OPEC to it's knees. Oil control. Simple as that. That's how North Korea was successfully able to obtain fully functional nuclear weapons under everyone's nose.

So Earth, honey, it's been a fun ride but it looks like we're going down. Get some sleep and warm up your containment suit, dear, cause tomorrow's going to be a radiated, blustery day.

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