North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) watches a long range rocket launch into the air in North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo February 7, 2016. Mandatory credit REUTERS/Kyodo
Newsweek: If North Korea Is Preparing for Nuclear War, All of Asia Needs Nuclear Weapons, Says Henry Kissinger
In a recent interview with The New York Times, former Secretary of State and Cold War strategist Henry R. Kissinger warned that East Asia is racing towards nuclear proliferation.
The controversial former diplomat--whose critics charge with aiding and abetting military regimes in Latin America during his time as part of the Nixon Administration—said that a nuclear-armed North Korea is about to kickstart an arms race in which "nuclear weapons" will "spread in the rest of Asia."
“It cannot be that North Korea is the only Korean country in the world that has nuclear weapons, without the South Koreans trying to match it. Nor can it be that Japan will sit there,” he said. “So therefore we’re talking about nuclear proliferation.”
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WNU Editor: Henry Kissinger has a point. The logic is that if North Korea develops a delivery system that can threaten a U.S. city with nuclear missiles carrying hydrogen bombs .... the U.S. would not intervene in a war against North Korea over fears that these missile would then be launched. In short .... would the U.S. be willing to lose 10 (or more) major cities to save South Korea and Japan from North Korean aggression. The answer is no .... at least that is what most South Koreans and Japanese believe .... even with all the assurances that Washington is now giving to both Seoul and Tokyo. Hence .... even with sanctions and international blow-back .... South Korea and Japan will quickly develop a nuclear deterrent. The prospect of being dictated and ruled by someone like Kim Jung-un is simply unacceptable for a mass majority of these people.
