THE NORTH KOREAN ATTACK

Tirone's coverage of the North Korean attack on South Korea in March 2010.





All relevant nation members of the UN reacted to condemn the attack and urge a diplomatic or non military solution to this threat to regional and world stability, and this is a standard commenable reaction. Is it feasible ? . Yes, and practical. Tensions have been growing since North Korea sunk the South Korea warship Cheonan . This incident is underexplained and probably involves the Noth Korean perception of danger of attack from the South engendering a preemptive act on their part. Diplomacy is probably perceived by the global community as a deterant necessary to the escalation of the conflict.North Korea has revealed plans for uranium enrichment to escalate their nuclear capbility and to initiate a nuclear ams race, so is my conclusion. A diplomatic solution is ideal,but nuclear disarmament by diplomatic means such as the non proliferation treaty of the past might be untenable. Many nations such as China,the US and Russia having nuclear capability might view a new nonproliferation treaty as a reluctant measure in that they would be concerned to be armed in the event of nuclear retaliation, and in the event of nuclear blackmail by North Korea as a necessary self defense measure. They would with justification be concerned with how to monitor compliance with such a treaty. These are ever present tensions of nuclear bearing nations preventng entry into a nuclear nonproliferation treaty.Also the role of the Security Council would be hampered by the nuclear black mail issue that emerges onto the world scene as stated in Techau's comment in the article. China's diplomatic role would be non essential, in my view, in that extracting concessions by blackmail by the North Koreans acknowledge the full advent of China into the equation despite their stance of blackmail which they are acting out in any event.The crux of the matter is the ever present tensions which might prevent and could conceivably prevent etry into a non proliferation treaty.



REFERENCE
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-23/north-korea-s-belligerent-bombing-of-south-rebuked.html