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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il meeting with troops from his 7th Infantry Division
The ongoing circus that is known as North Korea has once again issued ruthless threats against the US and her allies; these latest provocations were made following a declaration by the chief US delegate to the IAEA in Vienna, Geoffrey Pyatt. “We will not accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state. We believe it is in North Korea's own best interests to return to serious negotiations,” he said.
Given the rogue state’s current string of activities, no one can deny that a real danger is posed by Kim Jong Il and his regime. In May, just days after conducting a widely-condemned underground nuclear test, North Korea also announced its unilateral withdrawal from the 1953 armistice that technically ended the Korean War; at present, the US and surrounding nations – particularly China, Japan, Russia, South Korea – are on high alert as they await North Korea’s largely unpredictable next steps.
On June 12, the UN Security Council issued Resolution 1874, which was unanimously approved by all member nations. Although China and Russia – particularly in recent days – have joined US efforts to pressure and further isolate the reclusive communist state, it continues to primarily attack the US and South Korea rhetoically.
Last weekend, the North threatened to “weaponize” all its plutonium, and admitted to running a secret uranium enrichment program; both elements could be used to create nuclear weapons. Following these assertions, the North’s state-run media outlet, Tongil Sinbo, stated it “is completely within the range of U.S. nuclear attack and the Korean peninsula is becoming an area where the chances of a nuclear war are the highest in the world.”
To avoid an outright catastrophe on the Korean peninsula, the US must, at the very least, push for a return to six-party negotiations. For its part, China, a key enabler of North Korea vis-à-vis trading relations, must do more to manage this out-of-control menace.
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