I’ve scheduled Sunday, March 10, as a free day for the Kindle version of Code Word: Paternity in hope of reaching a wider audience with its suggestion, happily through fiction, that North Korean nuclear threats should spur us to greater attention to defenses against unconventional means of nuclear attack.
I believe much of the reaction to North Korea’s recent actions and statements is off the mark, painting Pyongyang’s threats against America as bizarre and impossible to carry out. Bizarre, they are. Impossible, they are not.
Many bloggers, tweeters, and talking heads play Kim and his generals for laughs. Most policy analysts write that North Korea is a problem but won’t be a danger on American soil until it has missiles that can carry nukes here.
Both of those spins are wrong and when you have read this novel you will understand why, perhaps joining me in the unsettling thought that North Korea’s nuclear bomb test last month and recent threats to nuke America might be a prologue to Code Word: Paternity.