Wrong Again: Korean War Games
Bruce Cumings, 4 December 2003
“. . . Bush contrived to hype the threat [from North Korea], while at the same time downplaying the idea that its size made a difference: the North might have two or six or eight atomic bombs, but that didn’t constitute a crisis. Rather, Saddam Hussein – whom we now know to have been disarmed by years of UN inspections – was so much more dangerous as to justify a preventive war. The result was chaos as far as US policy was concerned, and free rein for North Korean hardliners to move ahead with producing nuclear weapons.”