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Article: Crazy Kim (Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il of North Korea) (Editorial)
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- The Nation
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- November 29, 1993
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Aspate of scare stories dominated the news on the weekend of November 5 to 7, coinciding with Defense Secretary Les Aspin's visit to Seoul. From National Public Radio to CBS Evening News to our papers of record, wild charges circulated about crazed North Koreans readying an atomic bomb, forbidding access to international inspectors and concentrating 70 percent of their army on the border with South Korea--the implication being that they might attack at any miniute. On Sunday President Clinton told Meet the Press that "any attack on South Korea is an attack on the United States."
For readers who might think that the second Korean War is about to start, not to ...