Plan C: Disarm Kim Jong Il Just by Pissing Him Off!

U.S. intelligence officials have warned President Obama and other senior American officials that North Korea intends to respond to the looming passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution this week — condemning the communist country for its recent nuclear and ballistic missile tests — with another nuclear test, FOX  News has learned.  [Fox News]

Could we be just six U.N. resolutions away from the complete nuclear disarmament of North Korea?  And you say the U.N. is worthless!

If only it were so easy:

The other three actions include the reprocessing of all of the North’s spent plutonium fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium; a major escalation in the North’s uranium-enrichment program; and the launching of another Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile from the Yunsong military complex on the west coast of North Korea.

David Albright and Selig Harrison were unavailable for comment.

Don’t forget that 50 megawatt reactor, either, if their plan is to increase their plutonium production capacity.  I have yet to see any recent substantive analysis of that reactor’s capacity to reprocess plutonium, although a 2005 Washington Post report claimed that the North Koreans were as little as two years from completing it.

Interestingly, the report also notes that our satellites have detected no recent Taepodong II activity, although that may be because we’ve lost track of it.