Re: What WMDs?

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On Wednesday June 04, 2003 02:25, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Rob Kaper wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:00:19PM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > > Moreover, sanctions against N. Korea would be quite difficult to
> > > enforce, as N. Korea is militarily quite stronger than Iraq,
> > > particularly its Navy, which amongst other things has a significant
> > > set of submarines and, as a blockade would be an unprovoked act of
> > > war, N. Korea would be fully justified under international law in
> > > sinking any ships enforcing a blockade.
> >
> > Technically, the US is already at war with North Korea. The 1953
> > cease-fire was never turned into a peace treaty.
>
> Technically North Korea was never at war with the US as Congress never
> declared war against North Korea; instead it was at war with the United
> Nations, to which then-president Truman appealed to get "authorization"
> to war.
>
> If you want to get even more technical, the "police action" was
> prosecuted pursuant to UN resolutions and overseen throughout by the UN,
> to which the US forces reported.  Hence, ironically, the US forces
> reported to a Russian general (who was the UN commander at the time),
> meaning that both sides of the "war" were directed by Russian generals -
> but that is the Empire game.  Welcome to the New World Order!

Technically, the US has a defense pact with South Korea, so if they're at 
war then we'll be involved.  http://www.korea.army.mil/sofa/mutdef.htm

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