Check out the opening paragraph of this news story on North Korea’s nuclear announcement:
North Korea is to strengthen its “atomic potential” in response to Washington’s hostile policies, Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency quoted the president of its parliament as saying Thursday.
The article then continues to expand on the quotes from the Dear Leader of Death Camps for – count them – ten paragraphs, before bothering to mention that “Washington’s hostile policies” don’t really exist except in Kim Jong-Il’s mind:
On Feb. 10, North Korea said it possessed nuclear weapons and was dropping out of six-party talks aimed at ending its atomic ambitions. It blamed U.S. hostility for the decision to pull out.
About six weeks later, the North said it was forced to increase its nuclear arsenal because it saw the U.S. military as a serious threat.
U.S. officials have repeatedly said Washington has no plans to invade the North.
Frankly, I’ve given up expecting fair media coverage from Reuters.
Of course the US has invasion plans for N.Korea. They have invasion plans for every hotspot; that’s what military planners do for a living. Whether they implement them is another story.
That’s one of the frightening things about the Liberal’s decimation of Canada’s military. There’s no money and manpower to undertake and maintain strategic planning. Remember how long it took Canada to respond to the Tsunammi relief, the lack of current info, the time it took to get a recce team down and debriefed? People were all too ready to hack on the military while the blame lay squarely on those
overpaid pompous asses in Government.