The Washington Post
05/29/12 Chico Harlan
“U.S. denies N. Korea Commando operation”
The U.S. military on Tuesday denied a report that it has
been sending commandos into North Korea to spy on underground military
facilities, a mission that would violate the armistice agreement that ended the
Korean War.
“Quotes have been made up and attributed to him,” the U.S.
statement said. “No U.S. or [South Korean] forces have parachuted into North
Korea.”
But analysts warned that North Korea, despite the U.S.
denial, could seize the initial report as evidence of American belligerence, a
central theme of its propaganda and a key rationale for its military spending
and provocations. Last week, Pyongyang vowed to bolster its “nuclear
deterrence” if the United States continued a hostile policy toward the North.
“Anything like this, it just plays right into the hands of
North Korea,” said Daniel Pinkston, a Seoul-based security expert at the
International Crisis Group. “It proves their narrative that America just wants
to topple the regime. They can pick up the original story and just run with
that.”
The United States runs spy missions in numerous dangerous
countries, security experts note, but few present the kind of challenges posed
by North Korea, which has near-sealed borders and redundant layers of
surveillance agencies. In recent years, U.S. intelligence officials have
learned of important events in the North — such as the development of a
uranium-enrichment facility and the death of leader Kim Jong Il — only when the
Pyongyang government announced them.
Common Sense Review
This is an absolutely ridiculous article. North Korea who supposed to have Nuclear
missile (yet can’t launch a long range missile successfully) as well as their
tyrannical attitude to their own people, is not on the radar for the US govt to
send in any military tool to acquire information on what the North Korean intentions. Sometimes the US govt thinks we are idiots.
Of course they sent in some form of intelligence agent into
North Korea. Whether it is the commando
forces, CIA specialist in North Korea, Local spies or drones, the US is going
to get intel on this secretive country.
I just glad the US govt isn’t just lying to its citizens by
to the rest of the world…
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