Nuclear Club
North Korea, is the first member of the Axis of Evil to gain membership in the nuclear club. It’s first nuclear test, came six years after Bush decided to drop the Clinton administration policy of engagement with Kim Jong-il. In the past six years Bush has refused to engage directly with North Korea, but instead trusted communist China to safeguard America’s vital interests. China has failed to dampen the nuclear ambitions of the North Korean dictator. Bush can’t admit that his policy of alienating and antagonizing North Korea has failed to produced settlement.
The Clinton administration used Wendy Sherman as a special policy adviser on North Korea from 1997 until the end of Clinton’s term. Ambassador Sherman states that when Bush took office, America was involved in negotiation to stop the development of missiles, which might deliver nuclear weapons. Although, Colin Powell thought continued negotiations were a good idea, he was overruled by Bush. As a result, we have a 400 percent increase in the amount of plutonium North Korea possesses.
In Bob Woodward’s “State of Denial,” candidate Bush is quoted as asking the Arabian Prince Bandar in June of 2000, “Why should I care about North Korea?” Today, North Korea has nuclear weapons, which might start a nuclear arms race. Both, South Korea and Japan may decide they need nuclear weapons to deter an attack. North Korea might decide to sell fissionable material for nuclear weapons to terrorists. Nothing is more terrifying to Americans than terrorists with their hands on nuclear weapons.
A blockade is not going to stop North Korea from transferring nuclear weapons. Plutonium can be a size of an orange, you can put it in a suitcase and take it across a border, you don’t need a ship coming out of a port to do that. Although, “The Proliferation Security Initiative” is a useful technique, it’s not likely to stop North Korea from having its nuclear weapons or transferring some of that technology.
I’m reminded of the words:
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it’s too late- Eagles
The Clinton administration used Wendy Sherman as a special policy adviser on North Korea from 1997 until the end of Clinton’s term. Ambassador Sherman states that when Bush took office, America was involved in negotiation to stop the development of missiles, which might deliver nuclear weapons. Although, Colin Powell thought continued negotiations were a good idea, he was overruled by Bush. As a result, we have a 400 percent increase in the amount of plutonium North Korea possesses.
In Bob Woodward’s “State of Denial,” candidate Bush is quoted as asking the Arabian Prince Bandar in June of 2000, “Why should I care about North Korea?” Today, North Korea has nuclear weapons, which might start a nuclear arms race. Both, South Korea and Japan may decide they need nuclear weapons to deter an attack. North Korea might decide to sell fissionable material for nuclear weapons to terrorists. Nothing is more terrifying to Americans than terrorists with their hands on nuclear weapons.
A blockade is not going to stop North Korea from transferring nuclear weapons. Plutonium can be a size of an orange, you can put it in a suitcase and take it across a border, you don’t need a ship coming out of a port to do that. Although, “The Proliferation Security Initiative” is a useful technique, it’s not likely to stop North Korea from having its nuclear weapons or transferring some of that technology.
I’m reminded of the words:
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it’s too late- Eagles
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