Good News - North Korea to Give up Nuclear Weapons

Oct 4, 2007 at 3:52 AM
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The last few months has seen significant progress with North Korea. Yesterday North Korea agreed to begin dismantling its key nuclear facilities. A good report on that is from the Washington Post here . Today North and South Korea agreed to work towards a formal peace agreement ending the Korean War. A report on that in USA Today here.

Given North Korea's past behavior there will be setbacks on this road but the trend is clear.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice deserves most of the credit on the U.S. side for showing flexibility.

The goal of world peace needs to pursued in layers with the greatest threats given the most priority. In my opinion the spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat we face since the consequences of a nuclear war are so devastating and long term.

So now only Iran remains to worry the world.

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I'm not sure we should be adopting this blinkered view of exactly which countries are "worrying" the world. It's interesting to note that a few years ago, when discussing the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court -- a multilateral treaty according to which ratifying states agree to allow crimes arising out of certain situations to be brought before the ICC -- it was the United States of America that vociferously insisted that the use of nuclear weaponry not be included as an international crime.
Seems to me that Iran is hardly the only remaining threat to the world.

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This is a great start, but we are a long way from world peace. I do agree that
nuclear weapons are the greatest threat, because of the devastation on a massive level they can cause.

Indiana replied to Lightchaser’s comment:
Oct 4, 2007
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That blinkered view as you put it is often caused by a country threatening to blow up another country, for instance Iran.

Regardless it is good news S. Korea and N. Korea are working things out.