I’ve not read the full story, but it appears North Korea are publicly acknowledging their nuclear ambitions:
North Korea to perform nuclear test.
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October 3rd, 2006 at 1:31 pm
I’m afraid this is an inevitable, if delayed, consequence of the end of the Cold War balance of power.
Countries that see themselves as being ‘threatened’ by US - not necessarily in a literal sense, but certainly ideologically, will make every effort to develop their own nuclear capability to counterbalance the US’s massive superiority in conventional forces.
What we’re moving into as far the realpolitik goes is an era of assymetric deterrence.
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Well I suppose you could say thats more honest than a certain Middle Eastern country who denies they have nuclear weaponry.
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:53 pm
I’ve run five pieces on Korea. Here is General Kim: “The general has declared that not even a tiny concession will be made to the imperialist US invaders, our archenemy,” said a broadcast on North Korean state television. Kim, who never speaks himself in public, said that if the US took “revenge,” it would mean “all-out war.” “It is not empty talk for the DPRK [the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] to respond with revenge to any revenge by the enemy and with all-out war to an all-out war,” the TV said. That’s why the nuclear programme is inevitable.
October 4th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Why is this a concern? Neither the former USSR or the PRC ever used their nuclear weapons aggressively (which, without wishing to sound like a pansy-liberal, the US is the only country in the world to have ever done so). I don’t see any reason why a nuclear North Korea poses any real threat to.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
The more countries that have nuclear weapons, the more change they’ll be stolen/shared.
October 4th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
I don’t see any reason why a nuclear North Korea poses any real threat to.
It might look different from Seoul. The guy is a complete nutter.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Personally I’m more worried about the thousands of nuclear weapons that went missing when the USSR broke up.