The Threat Called North Korea
Nearly a year ago, George W. Bush first labeled Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, as the "axis of evil." So why then have we heard so much about how Iraq is such a threat to U.S. national security, and hardly a word about North Korea? There is no doubt in America's mind or in anyone else's outside of Baghdad that Sadaam Hussein is a menace to society. He's both a threat to his own people and to the rest of the world. He has broken sanction after sanction; and received nothing more then a smack on the hand for it. Meanwhile, with the world's view pointed in Iraq's direction, and Iran trying not to anger anyone, North Korea has decided to try to steal some of the limelight. Always a problem, and sometimes referred to as a "rogue-state," North Korea is stirring up quite a mess in Washington, and the worry is well warranted. For the following reasons North Korea has become more of a threat than Iraq: For their development of nuclear technology, their willingness to sell weapons to the highest bidder, their disregard for several treaties, and their emerging capabilities to hit the continental U.S. with a nuclear tipped missile. North Korea has proven time and time again that they are more then
Any nation in this day in age who actively seeks nuclear technology and weapons is going to be both questioned and considered a growing threat to world peace. This treaty gave North Korea a package of benefits in return for a freeze of their nuclear program. would be viewed as an "act of war" and that they would act accordingly to them. It is believed that at the time of the moratorium the North was working simultaneously on both a two and a three-stage rocket capable of reaching the whole continental United States. North Korea has been accused of selling every weapon they have ever created to the highest bidder. nuclear inspectors that were part of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, furthering the believe that they are willing to say one thing and do another with no regard for international laws or treaties (Niksch). This uncertainty has many Washington officials worried of sudden attack if Kim Jong Il feels threatened in any way. knew that North Korea had enough plutonium for at least two nuclear weapons. publicly revealed the discovery of North Korea's secret nuclear weapons program. When asked to respond to those comments State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said "The United States was prepared to offer economic and political steps to improve the lives of the North Korean people, provided the North were dramatically to alter its behavior across a range of issues, including its weapons of mass destruction programs, development and export of ballistic missiles, support for terrorism. While Kim Jong Il is busy murdering his own people and spending approximately 30-40% of the nation's gross income on the military, 2 million of his citizens have starved over the past five years. North Korea, by reopening its nuclear facilities and kicking out the U.
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