Military Attack Memo

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Our Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un remains wary of the potential for a military response from the United States. We currently play our odds on the gamble that the United States will not launch a military attack. The Bush Administration is overloaded and thus likely to remain distracted. Having watched several transitions in the United States, we are confident that it will take any new administration a year to get its own act together, and in knowing that our priorities will remain in military defense on schedule as we advance our nuclear and missile programs. Planners are also brainstorming countermeasures to conventional warfare as well. Yet cyber warfare is just as probable, and politicians as well as military planners are embedded deeply in …show more content…
Firing a ballistic missile over Japan is deeply aggressive, but the flight path over Hokkaido was chosen strategically. Hokkaido is the northernmost major island in Japan, the least densely populated, and far away from the major U.S. bases in Japan. If we were to launch a missile that traveled directly over Tokyo or major U.S. military bases, policymakers would be forced to respond. By choosing the flight path that we did, we gave the U.S. and Japanese policymakers an out. This would serve as a message to the U.S., to China, and to Japan and South Korea all at the same time. I believe it would send a message to the U.S. that we were not very happy about the sanctions that were recently imposed both in the United Nations and the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States through the Treasury Department. I believe this would coerce the United States into stopping flights of B-1B bombers and other bombers from Guam over the Korean Peninsula. In terms of China, I think this strategy would also serve to show China that we were unhappy about the vote in the U.N. Security Council over the sanctions and could potentially put China in a very difficult position as well by launching a missile over Japan. This would send a message that “we won’t be pushed