Normally, you’d see headline like this on the X-Files or in an Onion parody.
Not today.
Reuters reported yesterday that North Korea is deploying sea-based nuclear missiles that can carry warheads. The source is the authoritative Jane’s Defense Weekly. The missiles appear to be based on the decommissioned Soviet R-27 ballistic missile, which was apparently acquired in the 1990′s from Russian missile specialists.
Frightening, no? It gets worse.
Apparently, the North Koreans also have 12 former Soviet submarines which had been sold for scrap metal, but retained elements of the launch systems. Refit the engines, polish the brass, fill the launch tubes, and presto, the lunatic Kim Jong Il can float a missile platform off the West Coast.
Not only did the United States not stop North Korea from developing their weapons program (because we were busy elsewhere), but now they’ve got nuclear missile submarines.
So….where did they get the submarines, you ask? Why, from Rev. Sun Myung Moon, of course! The Moonie leader, whose Unification Church owns the conservative Washington Times, and who contributes heavily to conservative Republicans, is arming North Korea. And the Defense Intelligence Agency knew about it in the mid-1990′s. You can view the declassified documents here. Much of this has been put together by John Gorenfeld, as reported in American Prospect and other sources.
Wow, this looks real. I think we’re in deep shit, because Kim Jong Il is a nutjob.
I’m also wondering what the law has to say about arms sales to foreign governments. Especially ones in the “Axis of Evil.” Or do the large campaign contributions buy Rev. Moon a “get out of jail free” card?
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Your article does not mention how Sun Myung Moon came to be the owner of these submarines. Apparently they were purchased by one of Moon’s businesses from the Soviet Union and were allegedly to have been scrapped. Now Moon may have dropped the idea fairly quickly, but I believe his original impetus for buying the submarines was because of a mad scheme to smuggle people and goods into countries (including the United States) by submarine to avoid the nuisance of official oversight. When it became apparent that this scheme would never work, Moon agreed to sell them for scrap, and had no objection to selling them to North Korea, where he has business ties as well as having originally been born there (before Korea became a divided country). By the way, I’m a former follower of Moon, and if you’d like to find out more about what it’s like to be a “Moonie” for more than a decade, please read my new book, Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, A Cult Survivor’s Memoir, which is available from Amazon.com. A sample chapter of the book can be read by visiting my website at http://www.moonbook.com.