Earlier North Korea unveiled 'game-changer' ballistic missiles during a display of the country's military might
Arthur Waldron, FPRI: Our Brave New Nuclear World
So now we have a North Korea armed with long-range missiles and thermonuclear weapons. Make no mistake. This is the new normal. Pyongyang will never give them up, and no one can make them do so.
The follow-on effects of this development will transform global politics and security policy. A wave of nuclear proliferation and military buildup is definitely to be expected. So one must ask: given our knowledge of what was going on in North Korea, how did we ever let this happen? Also we must ask, what realistically can be done to lower the threat of war?
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WNU Editor: Could not have said it any better. But stopping a threat before it becomes too big of a threat to stop is also fraught with danger. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was to stop Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program before he became a real threat .... and we all know how that story turned out.
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ReplyDeleteFollowed by relative 'elbow room', grief, prosperity
After the "Harrowing of the North" a maiden could travel fully bedecked in gold the length and breadth of England.
Likewise China was very safe after WW2, the Civil War, the execution of addicts & pushers and whatever else the did.
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2003 invasion was to make sure Saddam wouldn't use any of his many WMD - remember Colin Powel making the case about mobile WMD labs. Turns out Saddam gave up WMDs. Turns out US Intel was wrong. Turns out no WMD were found in Iraq even after years of searching.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's very true and too late. Democracy is marvelous but weak. Dictatorship is horrible but strong. We are going to have an other round of confrontation between both sooner or later, and it will be ugly.
ReplyDeleteWell said Jac
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