Thursday, August 25, 2005

CONPLAN 5030

7/21/03
Upping the Ante for Kim Jong Il

Pentagon Plan 5030, a new blueprint for facing down North Korea
By Bruce B. Auster and Kevin Whitelaw (updated post... sorry, I'm new)

Within the past two months, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has ordered U.S. military commanders to devise a new war plan for a possible conflict with North Korea. Elements of the draft, known as Operations Plan 5030, are so aggressive that they could provoke a war, some senior Bush administration officials tell U.S. News...
... "Some of the things [Fargo] is being asked to do," says a senior U.S. official, "are, shall we say, provocative."
There are several war plans for Korea--Plans 5026 and 5027, as well as 5030


Looks like the North Koreans have succesfully exploited CONPLAN 5029...AND 5030.
And this plan...

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