Got Satellites?

We already recognized S.C. Rep. Jeff Duncan as one of the few members of our state’s ass-backward General Ass-embly who knows which end is up, but we had no idea homeboy rolled with spy satellites and geopolitical awareness.

Duncan, who is rumored to be the next chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, stepped outside of his immediate sphere of interest over the weekend to provide an inside look at North Korea’s “re-nuclearization,” along with some choice spy satellite pics and dead-on analysis of how America is getting played on the Yellow peninsula.

Here’s the skinny from Duncan’s blog, Walk-On Legislator:

In February and April 2007, North Korea agreed to “abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and returning, at an early date, to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and to IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] safeguards.”

Supposedly, “this significant achievement commits all six parties to a denuclearized Korean Peninsula and will lead to a more stable and secure Northeast Asia.”

For doing this, North Korea received as it “complies with its commitment to declare all its nuclear programs and to disable all existing nuclear facilities (including reactors and processing plants), further shipments of economic, energy and humanitarian assistance equivalent to 950,000 tons of heavy fuel oil will be delivered in line with the principle of “action for action.”" (Source: US Dept. of State Website)

Well, they’re baaaaaccccckkkkk! (This picture) is the Yongbyon facility. IAEA seals are broken and it more than appears that North Korea is re-starting its nuclear programs. Sources say that it could produce plutonium within two months!

They agreed to the deal long enough to get their hands on the fuel oil and other incentives. Furthermore, I believe that China influenced North Korea to go along with the deal until after the Olympics in order to placate the rest of the world, and then crank up their weapons program once the Games were over. Well, it seems the Games have just begun!

Damn, forget study soybeans, people! We thought we got it right with our take on the North Korean situation a few months ago, but somebody needs to get Duncan on the line with Henry Kissinger, stat.

Oh, and what a refreshing departure from the intellectual anti-gravitas shown by your typical S.C. lawmaker.

UPDATE – By popular demand (of Sic Willie), here is DMB’s song “Satellite.”

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