This is the reality of nuclear rights all nations possess. Because Iran has vast wealth in fossil fuels, we can force them to continue to produce dirty energy? Are they not allowed to seek cleaner sources of energy?
Where was the Preemption Policy while North Korea developed Weapons? We had 30k Troops on the DMZ watching North Korea do as they please for like 50 years. North Korea directly threatens the USA with preemptive action, and Japan is a greater ally than Israel & is directly in the line of danger, while Iran is only a threat to Israel and somehow we are duped into risking US lives and escalating Anti-Americanism in the Middle East on behalf of Israel, in Iran?
It is not beyond the realm of possibility that North Korea will launch an attack on the US if the US goes against Iran with Force. North Korea would have no reason to think they weren’t next. The Axis of Evil was Iraq, Iran and North Korea, with two nations toppled, why would anyone expect North Korea to sit back and be a target?
Israel has made even more threats to Iran. Israel has a history of aggression against its neighbors, Iran does not. Israel is in violation of the NPT and countless UN Resoloutions, Iran is not, atleast not yet.
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Asherman, what makes you think only Iran will attack us - can you see the 10/1 chance yet, or will it only be clear when it hits you in the face ??
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N. Korea Says It's Prepared for Pre-Emptive Strike Against U.S.
April 9 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea said it's prepared to strike first against the U.S., rather that wait for an attack, even as representatives of the two nations were making overtures in Tokyo for a resumption of nuclear talks.
``A pre-emptive attack is not a monopoly of the U.S.,'' the North's official Korea Central News Agency cited Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim Il Chol as saying. North Korea ``will never sit idle until it is exposed to a preemptive attack of the U.S.''
The rhetoric comes as representatives to the six-nation talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons are gathered at the April 9-10 Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue in Tokyo. Delegates from North Korea, South Korea, the United States, China, Russia and Japan are attending the event.
Kim, who also serves as a member of North Korea's Defense Commission and as a minister of the People's Armed Forces, was speaking at a ceremony to mark North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's election as NDC chairman, the official news agency said.
Should the U.S. start a war, North Korea will ``mobilize their politico-ideological might and military potentials built up generation after generation,'' and ``mercilessly wipe out the enemies and thus victoriously conclude the stand-off with the U.S.,'' Kim was cited as saying.
The U.S., South Korea, Japan, China and Russia have been negotiating with North Korea for the past 2 1/2 years in an effort to get the communist state to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
Six-Nation Talks
Six-nation talks in Beijing in November ended without an agreement after negotiators in September called for a nuclear- free Korean peninsula and economic cooperation with North Korea on energy, trade and investment. North Korea has been stalling returning to the talks, demanding that the U.S. lift financial sanctions over allegations of money laundering and counterfeiting by North Korean companies.
South Korea's chief delegate to the six-nation talks, Chun Young Woo, said the discussions are unlikely to produce a breakthrough on North Korea's nuclear program, Agence France- Presse reported today, citing the negotiator speaking after today's session of the academic security conference sponsored by the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
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