Richard Tanter: Australia hardwired into US military planning in Korea

Nov 14, 2017 |

Pine Gap intelligence facility at night. Picture: SUPPLIED

Richard Tanter, NT News November 13, 2017

SOME Territorians are worrying about threats of war in Korea – with good reason.

We know that any war on the crowded Korean peninsula is a horrific prospect.

Moreover, we worry that Pine Gap near Alice Springs, long a Cold War nuclear target, may well be one again today.

And when our Prime Minister says we are “joined at the hip” to the United States over Kim Jong-un’s provocations, we began to suspect, correctly as it turns out, that we are hardwired into any US war in Korea, like it or not. …

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