Subject: North Korea Buys Euro UAVs
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 05:12:55 GMT
From: softwar@us.net (Charles R. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.org.cia,alt.war,alt.politics.clinton,alt.current-events.usa
Look at what is at:
http://www.awgnet.com
The Aviation Week and Space Technology web site.
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SERIAL Provocation
The arrest of a U.S. citizen on spying charges and the intrusion of a
submarine and a team of commandos into South Korean waters may be just
the first in a series of incidents. Unmanned aerial vehicles could be
used in new provocations by North Korea. The North Koreans have
procured UAVs and they intend to make them operational, according to a
senior Pentagon official. UAVs could violate South Korean airspace to
photograph sensitive border military positions or to trigger South
Korean air defenses in a campaign of harassment. Some analysts worry
that the UAVs might even be used as a poor man's cruise missile to
deliver radioactive waste and biological agents or nerve gas. The
North Korean UAVs are European-made, the U.S. official
said. North Korea can't design and build such vehicles itself, he
said. U.S. officials believe that a number of European manufacturers
continue to supply sophisticated arms to rogue nations. The
analysts wised up after the Persian Gulf war, when they found
sophisticated, European-built night-vision equipment in Iraqi hands.
U.S. intelligence has known for years that North Korea was
shopping for a UAV capability.
