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North Korea's Nukes

North Korea declared Thursday for the first time it possessed nuclear weapons and pulled out indefinitely from six-party talks on its atomic ambitions, saying it needed a defense against a hostile United States.

In addition to the saber rattling, North Korea announced its decision to indefinitely pull out of talks on its nuclear program despite having said it was ready to treat the US as a "friend" last month. Where did this latest round of political postering come from? Certainly the timing indicates it is a response to the latest public remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Condaleezza Rice's.

Where this goes from here is hard to say. It is not even clear whether or not North Korea actually poses a nuclear threat or if the country is manufacturing a negotiation tool (Saddam may have done the latter and paid dearly for it). One thing that is clear is that appeasement will not work.

"All this proves is the folly of appeasement, an option unfortunately forced on the Clintons by their friend Jimmy Carter, who sailed into the North Korean negotiations uninvited and dropped this Munich descendant onto the table. Tyrants do not willingly disarm; they need all the weapons which they can get in order to protect themselves from the people around them, including (and especially) their own subjects. To believe otherwise is folly, and as shown in North Korea, catastrophically deadly folly.." - Captain Ed

Posted by tim at February 10, 2005 12:46 PM

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