Mühltal, October 15, 2006
North Korea has conducted a nuclear test and I do not have the impression that Germans are particularly worried by this. Also, I have not yet seen any peace activists demonstrating in front of the North Korean embassy in Berlin. I wonder where they are? Probably in state of denial about this deadly threat to world peace?
There is one person who has clearly seen and named the threat more than four years ago already. And that is President Bush who then called Iraq, Iran and North Korea an “axis of evil” *.
Now - finally - the UNSC has imposed sanctions on North Korea. Let us hope they will be effective.
* The President’s State of the Union Address, January 29, 2002
More:
The Australian, “Danger most present” North Korea’s provocative actions vindicate President George Bush’s ‘axis of evil’ thesis, writes foreign editor Greg Sheridan, October 12, 2006
Excerpt:
“For at the end of the day the North Korean situation is deadly serious. There is a vast literature, and overwhelming evidence, of the most intimate nuclear and missile co-operation between North Korea, Iran and Pakistan. The danger of North Korea, which makes most of its money by counterfeiting US currency and selling drugs, deciding to sell nuclear technology or material to al-Qa’ida or like groups is real, incorrigible and deadly dangerous.
The Bush administration is not the problem here; it’s essential to any hope of containing the problem. Whichever way you cut it, North Korea has this week made the world a vastly more dangerous place.”
(Thanks Bob for sending the link!)