Nordkorea bestyckar Iran, Syrien och andra

Nordkorea har en lång historia av att förse andra ljusskygga regimer med avancerade vapen. Detta gäller bl a Iran, Irak (tidigare) , Libyen och Syrien. Det är nästan bäst att låta citat ur artikeln tala för sig själva:

A 2003 report by South Korea's Defence Ministry estimated that North Korea had shipped more than 400 Scud missiles to the Middle East since the 1980s. The biggest buyers were Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but also included Egypt and Libya. Until now, Israel has remained immune from heavyweight missiles since it came under attack from a limited number of Iraqi Scuds in 1991.

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North Korea has been selling missiles, parts and technical assistance to Iran for more than 20 years. Tehran's latest Shahab missiles are North Korean derivatives. This collaboration took a big step forward late last year when Pyongyang shipped 18 new, single-stage missiles to Iran that had been developed, but never flight-tested, in North Korea. They were based on the SSN6, a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead that was launched from submarines. It was originally deployed by the Soviet Union but the missile and warhead design technology fell into North Korean hands some time between 1988 and 1991, when the former superpower disintegrated.

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Meanwhile, both Tehran and Pyongyang have helped Syria improve its ballistic missiles. The latest US intelligence report to Congress in Washington, published last May for the year 2004, says that Syria was receiving essential foreign equipment and help to improve its short-range missile production capability primarily from North Korea while developing longer-range missile programs, such as Scud D and possibly other variants, with help from North Korea and Iran.

Det finns ett antal stenar att vända på. Och det är ju som sagt mycket lättare att anfalla än att försvara sig med modern teknologi (alltsedan kulsprutan och framåt).

Man försöker utnyttja failed state-situationen i södra Libanon. Fler diktaturer måste falla, och det så snart som möjligt. Under tiden måste kommunikationsvägar störas, och failed state-territorier ordnas upp, därför att de är så tacksamma attackplattformar.

Det uppenbara problemet är ju om man störtar en diktatur, och istället skapar en failed state...