What can I say? News of a nuclear test in North Korea is devastating to me. Why? I believe in the sanctity of human life and see only one way out of this situation and that is the scenario that Jonathan Kay outlines in the National Post this morning.
<...blockquote>Following that incident, South Korea reneged on a promise to provide the North with half a million tons of grain and fertilizer. Ordinary South Koreans are outraged that Pyongyang is letting people starve while it spends its money on missiles and nukes.
And all this was before Sunday's blast, which China called a "flagrant and brazen" violation of international opinion. For its part, Russia said it "absolutely condemns" the nuclear test. Whatever Kim Jong-Il is trying to accomplish with his nuclear brinkmanship, he's made a potentially fatal error: If Moscow, Beijing and Seoul do cut Pyongyang off entirely, the regime will starve and collapse -- as it almost did in the mid-1990s.
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of North Koreans - scratch that - human beings, will be forced to starve to death by the powers of a communist state before all of this is done. Devastating.
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The worst part for NK is that there is a good chance their bomb fizzled (ie. generated 550T instead of 550kT). So not only has the dear leader pissed off pretty much everyone around him, he hasn’t even shown the world that he has a properly working deterrent.
As much as I feel for the North Korean people I don’t think we have any option other than sanctions - at least sanctions in a country like this they would have more effect on the leadership than they did in Iraq.
Posted by Ian | October 10, 2006 9:21 AM
Posted on October 10, 2006 09:21
A quick question: have people confirmed that a test took place? I mean, have seismographs picked up the explosion, or have we picked up increases in radiation or somesuch? Because with the limited information I have, all I’m hearing is that we’re taking Pyongyang’s word for it, and the man behind that country isn’t exactly stable. Is it possible as some have speculated that the explosion, if it occurred, was non-nuclear?
Posted by James Bow | October 10, 2006 3:52 PM
Posted on October 10, 2006 15:52