Is N.Korea more of a threat to the US than to S.Korea? Rummy doesn't know.

August 27, 2006

Rumsfeld: NKorea not a military threat to South



FT. GREELY, Alaska (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Sunday said
North Korea does not pose a military threat to South Korea, calling Pyongyang more a danger as a proliferator of weapons to other countries and perhaps terrorists.

"I think the real threat that North Korea poses in the immediate future is more one of proliferation than a danger to South Korea," he told reporters during a visit to a missile defense installation in Alaska.

"I don't see them, frankly, as an immediate military threat to South Korea," Rumsfeld said, noting South Korea's improved military capability as well as what the defense secretary described as a deteriorated condition of North Korea's forces.

Asked if North Korea's offensive missile capability is more of a threat to the United States than to South Korea, he said he did not know.


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