Israel demands world 'respond decisively' to North Korea nuclear test

Last update - 22:20 25/05/2009
Israel demands world 'respond decisively' to North Korea nuclear test
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, and The Associated Press

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1088071.html

:cry: :cry: :rofl:

Just so the world doesn't look at Israels nuclear proliferation.

That's as good as their habitual "Let's you and him fight!"

...but given the title of the piece and the OP comment, it is to be expected.

I was about to check out for the night, but I wouldn't want to miss that. But if it is merely to accuse me of such, that I can afford to skip.

All anti-Semitism is idiotic, but not all iditoticness is anti-Semitic. Too big a riddle for you?

At any rate, what exactly are you saying? Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's office was idiotic for saying this, Ha'aretz was idiotic for publishing it, am I idiotic for posting it, or are others idiotic for finding it to be amusing and hypocritical?

Since you seem to know so much about what I think, why don't you just guess, and then claim it as fact as you and those like you are want to do.

"North Korea's thrown something in our face that we have to deal with now and it could have tremendous ramifications for the ability to stop proliferation in the future," said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a nuclear disarmament think tank.

The former arms inspector said international failure to respond resolutely could embolden Iran in its suspected quest for a nuclear bomb, but also could see nuclear-armed Pakistan mimic the North in a test that might provoke India in turn.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Washington sought a tough U.N. Security Council response and wanted to make North Korea "pay a price" through a mixture of multilateral and U.S. measures, which he did not spell out.

A U.S. Treasury Department official said that agency had broad authority to take action against North Korea and was weighing options for imposing financial sanctions.

The international record with North Korea's missile and nuclear tests shows that is easier said than done.

"North Korea proliferates to make money so you have to worry that in isolation, under sanctions, it will do more of it," said Albright. He noted that Pyongyang helped Syria build a nuclear reactor while under many international sanctions.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE54P6N620090526

But officially we don't know for certain. SA willingly closed down their nuclear program years ago though, to my recollection.

France sold material to Israel. Canada to Pakistan. (Ostensibly for civilian use, but still.)

EDITORIAL No way to act

Author: PWW Editorial Board
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 05/26/09 15:05

North Korea's recent nuclear test, as well as its subsequent test firing of two missiles, represents a grave threat to peace and stability in the region, the fight to eliminate nuclear weapons from the world and, more generally, the fight for peace and social progress.

We condemn these reckless and provocative acts.

North Korea has claimed that it has been the victim of imperialist aggression, specifically from the United States. The United States has refused to sign a peace treaty with North Korea, has hedged on agreements made in the six-party talks aimed at solving the nuclear issue, and, over the decades, worked to isolate North Korea.

And it was the U.S. that fought in the war which divided the country into two -- a war that has never officially ended. The border between North and South Korea is one of the most militarized in the world.

Nonetheless, building nuclear weapons, which endanger the very existence of humanity itself, can never be justified.

Recent changes in the world make the test all the more irresponsible. Today, Barack Obama is the U.S. president and as such pledged to reduce nuclear arsenals, to sign a treaty that would ban all nations, including the U.S. itself, from any nuclear tests. Unprecedented vows from any U.S. president, and one that has been welcomed around the world.

The current fight for progressive forces is to make sure that such a nuclear policy is implemented. North Korea's tests do exactly the opposite. They play into the hands of those in the U.S. who want to derail the Obama presidency, as well as into the hands of those in Japan who would like to destroy the nation's “peace constitution” and turn Japan itself into an aggressive power.

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/15770/

As I remember, it was North Korea which attacked South Korea. I think the author of this piece, which was obviously written by committee, is somewhat lacking in history. Other than that, the editorial makes some good points.

The American dictator Syngman Rhee was a constant source of provocations and cross-border attacks long before the major business publications and politicians decided to call the inevitable conflict a war (or 'conflict', 'peace action', or whatever euphemism the ruling bodies decided to put on it), conveniently seeing fit to place all blame on the opposing side. Kim was eager for conflict to eliminate the tyrant Rhee, but he was hardly alone in that sentiment.