North Korean Missiles and Cuba

Humberto Fontova (at Human Events Online) reminds one and all (if they are willing to listen) that a commie is a commie is a terrorist:

North Korean officials met U.S officials in New York this Monday but any hopes that North Korea would agree to curtail their Nuclear program in exchange for U.S. bribes seem dim. Reuters quoted a State Department official as saying: "Nothing changed in so far as we received no indication as to how soon or how likely it is that they will return to six-party talks....as for substance, it did not change anything."

A major problem for North Korea's neighbors, we might think. Japan and South Korea should be worried, but those missiles sure can't reach us. Maybe not from North Korea. But an article in London's Jane's Defense Weekly (not exactly an outpost of the right-wing ranting blogosphere) from August of last year states that: "North Korea has long sought to obtain the ability to directly threaten the continental US" (emphasis added).

Now I'll quote directly from a December 11, 2004, article in The Pyongyang Times itself, titled "DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] Military Delegation Visits Cuba":

"The Cuban army and people will fight shoulder to shoulder with the Korean army and people in an anti-US joint front. Our armed forces exchanged views on strengthening cooperation in military fields."

Now let's go back to the October 5, 2003, "This Week" program on ABC, where host George Stephanopoulos interviewed CIA weapons inspector David Kay regarding what his team found in Iraq.

David Kay: "I would contend we've already found things that if they had been known last December, January, February would have made huge headlines: clandestine labs in the biological program, North Korean missiles going to Cuba. ... There's a whole host of stuff we have found."

Hello...? Hello...? Hello!

Typically, none of this made a splash in the mainstream media. Then again, historical knowledge has never been its strong suit. Connecting the dots between North Korea and missiles going to the regime that came closest to setting off nuclear Armageddon in 1962 – a regime that begged, pleaded, even tried to cajole the Butcher of Budapest into incinerating several U.S. cities – simply stumps the likes of Peter Jennings, Aaron Brown and Dan Rather.