안주 Links for 12 February 2009

U.S. AND ROK DEFENSE PLANNERS have finally gotten around to updating OPLAN 5027, the plan for the defense of the ROK in case of a North Korean invasion. That contingency seems rather unlikely today.

FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME ….

The DPRK was compelled to take an option for nuclear development which required huge funds, manpower and a lot of time. This was an inevitable security measure for self-defence taken to cope with the situation where the U.S. singled out the DPRK as a target of the former’s preemptive nuclear attack and pursued ceaseless moves to start a nuclear war against it.

Frankly speaking, it was none other than the U.S. that drove the DPRK to nuclear weaponization. [KCNA]

THIS SEEMS A LITTLE OVER THE TOP: A columnist calls the Lee Administration “psychopaths” over the deaths at Yongsan, and the Hankyoreh prints it:

Psychopaths have no soul. They do not feel anything, like other people’s pain, sadness or hopes. Gang killed people as though they were insects, feeling no conscience at all. The Lee administration as well was thoroughly insensitive to the sadness and pain of the surviving family members of those killed in the Yongsan tragedy. [The Hankyoreh]

And with that, the Hanky moves one step closer to KCNA. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t it the squatters themselves who started the fatal fire by throwing paint thinner all over the place? Any excuse that leads to the foregone conclusion will do, I guess.