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NEW YORK - Defense Department advisory committee member Richard Pearle, a representative member of the Bush Administration¡¯s hard-line ¡°neoconservatives,¡± said that North Korean must be blockaded by sea and air in order to prevent its nuclear warheads from leaving the country.
Pearle, a former Undersecretary of Defense and currently a member of the Pentagon¡¯s Defense Policy Review Board, called for the blockade in his recently-released book, co-authored by a former special assistant to President Bush, David Frum, entitled ¡°An End of Evil: How to Win the War on Terror.¡±
Pearle wrote that the danger of North Korean nuclear warheads being sold to terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda is greater than that of war on the Korean Peninsula. He also said that one must realize that no matter what is agreed upon with North Korea, Pyongyang is a partner that cannot be trusted.
Arguing that the United States must chose one of two alternatives, tolerating North Korea¡¯s nuclear arsenal or taking strong actions, Peale wrote that it was possible to begin a wide-scale sea and air blockade of North Korea and to shut down exchanges between North and South Korea.
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