Must Reading: Kissinger on North Korea
Greta Van Susteren's interview with the former Secretary of State is must reading. Click here for the transcript. An excerpt from Dr. Kissinger's remarks:
We have to understand what the issue is here. Here's a country of a population of 20 million that has no foreign trade, it has no national resources, that is not in the international system, that for two decades by bleeding (ph) its own population has managed to build a small nuclear arsenal and now they're working on delivery systems. The world, by which I mean the United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, has said this is unacceptable. The U.N. has passed a number of resolutions.
So if they get away with this and if they continue to have these nuclear weapons, this will mean that the non-proliferation policy is substantially in jeopardy, if not down the drain. How can we have expectation of success in negotiations with Iran if North Korea gets away with this? And under those conditions, countries like Japan and South Korea are likely to enter the nuclear world, too, and we'll be in a new world. And it will be a demonstration of the impotence of what calls itself the world community.
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