Jacob Heilbrunn & Wallace C. Gregson, National Interest: Thanks to North Korea, An Arms Race May Be Coming to Asia
Jacob Heilbrunn and Wallace C. Gregson discuss the military options on the Korean Peninsula.
Maybe now we will finally realize who North Korea is. Over the decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union we repeatedly assured ourselves and others that negotiations, agreements, economic cooperation, sanctions, threats and international scolding could reform, or at least restrain, North Korea. Each stratagem was tried in its turn, and repeated, to little effect. But we felt better. For a while.
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WNU Editor: An Asian arms race started when China started to make a move in the South China Sea (and elsewhere). North Korea just adds fuel to the fire.
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I hope so. Maybe just maybe South Korea, Japan, even Vietnam, and perhaps others will develop their own indigenous nuclear weapons programs as well as the means to deliver them. At that point, Russia and China will really have something to worry about.
Of course South Korea, Japan, and others have been perfectly willing for decades to jerk America's collective chain and to use and abuse us as pawns in their affairs. Candidate Trump correctly questioned the efficacy of such "alliances."
This problem cannot be resolved diplomatically unless America can feel safe from North Korea. Vladimir Putin had this completly backwards when he said North Korea needs to feel safe. North Korea has Russia and China bwcking it. As such, in terms of a foreign invasion North Korea is the safest place on earth.
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