https___progressive.org_latest_ignoring-north-korea-now-big-mistake_.xml
https___thahaonline.com_3566__1.xml
1.1 2.1 2.2 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 6.1 6.2 6.3 7.1 7.2 8.1 8.2 9.1 9.2 10.1 11.1 12.1 12.2 13.1 13.2 13.3 14.1 15.1
As the world's attention is focused on Iraq, the North Korean nuclear crisis is developing quickly in an alarming direction. The United States has put bombers on alert and North Korea is threatening all-out war, including possibly pre-emptive war. It has threatened the use of nuclear weapons, arguing that if the United States can wage pre-emptive war, it can, too. Last December, North Korea threw out U.N. inspectors, then it withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In late January, North Korea began to take technical steps to extract and refine plutonium, the stuff of nuclear bombs. We do not know if North Korea has one or two nuclear weapons at present, but if the current program continues, it is likely to acquire several in a few months time. It is only right that North Korea's violations of its NPT commitments have received a lot of publicity. North Korea has also violated its 1994 agreement with the United States, called the Agreed Framework. But U.S. violations of that agreement are also at the core of this dispute. In 1994, the United States agreed to "provide formal assurances" to North Korea "against the threat or use of nuclear weapons by the U.S." The Clinton administration never gave that assurance. Then the Bush administration made matters much worse by naming North Korea as a potential nuclear weapon target, which was a direct violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework. After that, President Bush named North Korea as part of the "axis of evil" in his 2002 State of the Union Address. The United States continues its policy of possible first-use of nuclear weapons and has a demonstrated willingness to use them. Until about 1991, it maintained about 700 nuclear weapons aimed at North Korea from South Korea. The United States has also announced that it may use nuclear weapons in retaliation for chemical or biological attack. That's a violation of U.S. commitments related to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States has said that it wants to resolve the issue peacefully, but it refuses to negotiate a new agreement with North Korea even though both parties have violated the old one. The United States must provide formal assurance that it will not threaten to use, or actually use, nuclear weapons against North Korea. That is a big mistake. The United States must provide formal assurance that it will not threaten to use, or actually use, nuclear weapons against North Korea. Such a security assurance should be part of the bargain that would return international inspectors to North Korea immediately and end its nuclear bomb program. Nuclear weapons are illegal and immoral, no matter who possesses them. The U.S. policy of possible first use of nuclear weapons goes back to Hiroshima. Safety and security require that it be scrapped now, not only for North Korea, but for all countries. The alternative could be nuclear war and catastrophe. Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, Maryland.
1.1 2.1 3.1 4.1 5.1
असार २२ – अमेरिकाले उत्तर कोरियामाथि सैन्य आक्रमण गर्न सक्ने चेतावनी दिएको छ । उत्तर कोरियाले मंगलबार अन्तरमहादेशमा मार हान्न सक्ने क्षमताको मिसाइल परीक्षण गरेपछि अमेरिकाले यस्तो चेतावनी दिएको हो । आवश्यक परेमा उत्तर कोरियाको गतिविधि विरुद्ध सैन्य कारवाही गर्न सकिने अमेरिकाले जनाएको छ । संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघका लागि अमेरिकी राजदूत निक्की हेलले अमेरिकाले उत्तर कोरियाका कारण उत्पन्न भएको खतराबाट आफ्नो देशको रक्षाका लागि तयारी गरेको बताउनुभयो । उत्तर कोरिया विरुद्ध नयाँ प्रतिबन्ध लगाउने सम्बन्धमा संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघमा प्रस्ताव पेश गरिने पनि उहाँले बताउनुभएको छ । उत्तर कोरियाले मंगलबार गरेको मिसाइल परीक्षणले उसले सैन्य क्षमता तीब्र गतिमा विस्तार गरेको देखिने र यो विश्वका लागि खतराको विषय रहेको अमेरिकाको भनाई छ । उत्तर कोरियाले मंगलबार जापानको समुद्री क्षेत्रमा अन्तरमहादेशिय मिसाइल प्रहार गरेको थियो । संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघले कुनै पनि किसिमको परमाणु कार्यक्रम गर्न नपाउने गरी उत्तर कोरियामाथि प्रतिबन्ध लगाएको छ । तर उत्तर कोरियाले भने लगातार मिसाइल परीक्षण गर्ने क्रम रोकेको छैन । यो नेपाली भाषाको अनलाइन समाचार संस्था हो । 'थाहा अनलाइन' २०७३ साल देखि सञ्चालनमा छ ।