With a US aircraft carrier positioned off the eastern coast, the plan was to hit the North Korean facility at Yongbyon. Kim called in Laney, and pointed out that between 20 to 30 million people would die in a war. I told him that I would not move even a single soldier of our 650,000 troops in case a war broke out. Clinton tried to persuade me to change my mind, but I criticized the United States for planning to stage a war with the North on our land. The whole house shakes.
Babies are startled.
What's more, the peak of rising anti-American sentiment in South Korea has yet to be reached. The election of this former prisoner of the US puppet regime, who has come up with his own reunification plan, marked a turning point that culminated in this truly historic summit. He's not stupid. And the Clinton administration, while formally hailing the talks, downplayed their significance in any but the long term sense. The Koreans, however, may have other plans. . . .