Nuclear disarmament: the Progressive Imperative
Saturday June 20, 2009
The second nuclear test by North Korea in May 2009 has alerted the world community and has created a situation that negatively affects peace and stability in Southeast Asia. The underground explosion in North Korea was higher than the first test of 2006, an earthquake measuring 4.52 degrees on the Richter scale, a fact that was cataloged as a response to North Korean military threat and economic sanctions imposed by the U.S., Japan and Russia and South Korea. The objective fact is that it reinforces the status-nuclear North Korea, which is a key weapon to perpetuate the current political regime and military dominance in the region.
Currently it is estimated that the world has between 25,000 and 30,000 nuclear weapons, 97% of them in American and Russian hands and the rest divided among China, France and the United Kingdom, countries that make up the Security Council of the United Nations and Pakistan, India and North Korea that nuclear weapons have been in breach of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The North Korean situation is out of control of international organizations who do not know the nuclear inventory or have alternative courses to promote disarmament in the short term. This brings the problem of being located in a Communist government's decision a potential nuclear war and the indiscriminate extermination of persons and damage to environmental assets.
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