Secret plans for North Korea

Nicholas Kristof writes about Pentagon plans for bombing Korea. The figures he give make interesting reading, especially if you compare them to the cake-walk that Iraq is likely to be.

The North has 13,000 artillery pieces and could fire some 400,000 shells in the first hour of an attack, many with sarin and anthrax, on the 21 million people in the “kill box”  as some in the U.S. military describe the Seoul metropolitan area. The Pentagon has calculated that another Korean war could kill a million people.

Ironically, the gravity of the situation isn’t yet fully understood in either South Korea or Japan, partly because they do not think this administration would be crazy enough to consider a military strike against North Korea. They’re wrong.