North Korea invites US Congress to visit alleged ‘anthrax’ plant

The chairman of South Korea’s parliamentary defense committee suggested Wednesday that China consider providing a “nuclear umbrella” to North Korea in exchange for Pyongyang giving up its nuclear programs. As Kim Jong Un continues on with his reign of terror and has come to use all means possible to secure his leadership, he will likely extend his ambitions to threaten the world with nuclear brinkmanship.

Now, then, “South Korea needs to try to draw the North back to the negotiating table and come up with countermeasures that can deter the nuclear threat while working with diplomatic channels as was the case in Iran”, Kim asserted.

In announcing a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama echoed numerous same sentiments of another Democratic president announcing a similar deal. But the North, which entered the NPT regime in 1985, broke away from the treaty in 1993, reentered it later and withdrew from it again in 2003, which has created global distrust toward the North.

Delegates from the six countries attend the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, July 13.

Another difference between the two is that economic sanctions for the oil-rich Islamic Republic are critical for its trade, while the impact of the sanctions on the North are much weaker, as its economy is largely disconnected from the worldwide system.

The Iran nuclear deal will not result in the launch of fresh negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear program given the different technical level of nuclear development between Tehran and Pyongyang, Hong said. “The science is not in dispute”, Joel S. Wit, a former State Department official and a senior fellow at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, told the outlet.

“Plus … when there is no guarantee that there would be progress to be made in negotiations with the North, which sticks to its nuclear weapons program and calls itself a nuclear power, Washington may not want to spend much time or put policy efforts into the issue”.

Washington and Seoul are now conducting an investigation on this matter.

Clinton’s 1994 deal also failed to achieve the goal of preventing the nation from acquiring a nuclear weapon, with estimates that North Korea has between 12 and 27 such weapons, and its leadership now claims it has the technology to “miniaturize nuclear weapons”.