Friday, February 15, 2013

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 15, 2013



North Korea Now Immune From Attack -- Greg Sheridan, The Australian

"NORTH Korea is moving to become an existential threat to the US." This is the stark, sobering judgment of a former senior US official on Pyongyang's nuclear test this week. It was the most powerful of North Korea's three nuclear tests so far, providing a bomb of perhaps half the strength of that which devastated Hiroshima in World War II.

It is still unclear whether it was a plutonium device, like the previous two, or one that used highly enriched uranium. If it is the latter, North Korea now has two sources of fuel.

The truth is, Western intelligence knows very little about what goes on inside North Korea, especially inside the head of Pyongyang's bombastic young dictator, Kim Jong-un.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Learn to live with a nuclear North Korea -- Ted Galen Carpenter, Washington Post

What's Kim Jong Un's intention with the nuclear test? -- Joo Sung Ha, Special to CNN

North Korea’s posturing leaves its people hungry -- Austin Bay, Statesman

It’s all up to Xi Jingping -- Joong Ang Daily

China's String of Pearls?
-- Robert Kaplan, Real Clear World/Stratfor

Israel's media censorship of the Prisoner X story is a sad fact of life -- Aluf Benn, The Guardian

French economic policy. Which way for Mr Hollande? -- The Economist

Analysis: Honeymoon wears off for Mexico president's reform push -- Simon Gardner and Anahi Rama, Reuters

Why Ecuador's Correa looks set to win Sunday's presidential election -- Irene Caselli, Christian Science Monitor

Would Hagel confirmation make war with Iran more likely? -- Olivier Knox, The Ticket/Yahoo News

In defense of Obama’s drone war
-- Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

Asteroid impacts: How to avert Armageddon -- Economist

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