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S3 Episode 10 - "The Host"

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The DPRK Is the Greatest Threat to America in the World

Average Americans were made aware of an impending nuclear North Korea in a flurry of headlines and broadcasts. US politicians and public intellectuals got to work advising a strike on Pyongyang if it did not allow immediate inspections. It was in fact two months earlier, in January 1993, that President Bill Clinton announced the US would resume the mammoth war games against North Korea known as Team Spirit. The very next month, strategic command announced it would be quote, retargeting nuclear weapons meant for the old Soviet Union on North Korea.

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