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The rhetoric over North Korea continues to escalate a significant pace. Only Two days ago, there was talk of shooting down the Tae Po Dong test missile in the air, followed by a US test of defensive missiles. Now a former Clinton Administration Defense Secretary William Perry states that the Bush Administration should follow through with its Foreign Policy of Pre-Emption established in the attack on Iraq in 2003. The basis for this call of an attack on a foreign country stems from the belief that the US has already established this doctrine and to waffle on the strategy now would only spur on North Korea, to build more missiles, perform more tests, sell missiles abroad and generally become more agressive. U.S. Urged To Destroy N. Korea Missile, Ex-Defense Secretary: Bush Should Attack If Launch Preparations Continue - CBS News: " (CBS/AP) Former Clinton administration Defense Secretary William Perry says the U.S. should attack and destroy North Korea's new long-range missile if Pyongyang continues launch preparations. A top U.S. official spurned the call for military action. In an op-ed piece published Thursday in the Washington Post, Perry said the Bush administration should strike and destroy the missile before it can be launched. Perry noted the Bush administration's doctrine of pre-emption, which it used as the basis for sending U.S. troops into Iraq in 2003. 'Therefore, if North Korea persists in its launch preparations, the United States should immediately make clear its intention to strike and destroy the North Korean Taepodong missile before it can be launched,' Perry said in the piece, co-written with Ashton B. Carter, Perry's assistant at the Pentagon. "