North Korea has been doing nuclear testing. They can now seriously be considered one of the nations with nuclear weapons. And the world is collectively trembling in it’s boots. An emergency session of the UN called. President Obama speaking out against it. South Korea and Japan, close enough to receive any potential missiles are deeply distressed. Even North Korea’s traditional ally, China, who has more than once used it’s UN veto on behalf of it’s smaller neighbour, is withdrawing support. There is even barely heard speculation from a distance as to what may happen if there was another Korean war, like the one from 1950-1953.
North Korea, a Stalinist nation with a nuclear payload. Sanctions slapped on it in 2006 has just made it more defiant, and more determined to make these weapons. So, what does the rest of the world do?
How about talking? Inviting them to the negotiating table and asking them why they need to have such weapons. Why do they feel so threatened? Treat them decently. They don’t have to be the pariah nation that the west makes them out to be. Like most people, if they are pushed enough, they might just push back. Converse. Treat them decently.
Iran is watching from a distance, on the edge of creating it’s own nuclear weapons. Once they see how the nations treat Korea, they might realise that they were wrong, that the world doesn’t hate them, and doesn’t think they are part of a group of hated and feared nations.
It might just work. As a great man once put it, jaw jaw is better than war war. And anything would be better than a tit for tat nuclear exchange which is what the world seems to be afraid of as a real possibility at the moment.
NUCLEAR WAR!(?)
