Intelligence

North Korea’s War Plans

A South Korean newspaper has published a 33-page document issued by North Korea last year entitled “Detailed Wartime Guidelines” that “ordered its people to prepare for a protracted war against the United States, issuing guidelines on evacuating to underground bunkers with weapons, food and portraits of leader Kim Jong-il.”

It was apparently issued on April 7, 2004, so one wonders when (or if) American intelligence agencies obtained a copy of the manual before seeing it in the South Korean press.