Latest North Korea Provocations Stem from Missed US Opportunities for Demilitarization

Democracy Now by Bruce Cumings | May. 29, 2009 (News Analysis)

(Video) There’s an article in the New York Times where someone in the Pentagon—I think it was Rumsfeld, but it was anonymous—was quoted saying, “If I’m Kim Jong-il, I’m running around wondering, you know, what’s likely to hit me next.” Is this any way to run a foreign policy, to threaten to decapitate the leadership of a country that we’re technically at war with? So—with nuclear weapons? So this is the real situation. And if I or you were in ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S.
Topics: Nuclear Weapons, War, North Korea, Foreign Policy
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - May 31, 2009 - 3:47 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - May. 31, 2009

Cumings provides an informed perspective on past and present events in relations between North Korea and the U.S.

I think the ultimate way to solve this is to actually implement the Non-Proliferation Treaty by the major nuclear powers drawing down their nuclear weapons eventually and ... More »

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