Markx
01-06-03, 09:40 AM
How about a nuclear Kuwait for Iraq? Why can't we do that? Also, why do republicans do not have a decent solution for any thing?
A nuclear Japan?
Bush urged to allow a nuclear Japan
The Times of London
January 06, 2003
From Roland Watson in Washington and Richard Lloyd Parry in Tokyo
INFLUENTIAL Republicans are urging President Bush to play his trump card — a nuclear Japan — if China refuses to start pressing North Korea to drop its uranium-enriching programme.
John McCain, who lost the party’s presidential nomination to Mr Bush, said that the threat of arming Tokyo would help to make it in China’s interests to persuade Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, to change his mind.
Mr McCain, a senator from Arizona, said on television yesterday that the best way to grab Beijing’s attention would be “to remove our objections to Japan developing nuclear weapons”. The justification for the idea is that North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile over Japan. If it achieved the production of weapons-grade uranium, Japan would be in the firing line and entitled to defend itself.
Alexander Losyukov, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, said that threats and sanctions were counterproductive and that it was unclear even if Pyongyang had a nuclear programme.
In Vienna, the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency will meet to discuss North Korea’s decision to remove monitoring equipment and expel its inspectors. In Washington, diplomats from the United States, South Korea and Japan will gather to agree their own response. James Kelly, the chief US representative at those talks, will have further talks in Seoul.
A nuclear Japan?
Bush urged to allow a nuclear Japan
The Times of London
January 06, 2003
From Roland Watson in Washington and Richard Lloyd Parry in Tokyo
INFLUENTIAL Republicans are urging President Bush to play his trump card — a nuclear Japan — if China refuses to start pressing North Korea to drop its uranium-enriching programme.
John McCain, who lost the party’s presidential nomination to Mr Bush, said that the threat of arming Tokyo would help to make it in China’s interests to persuade Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, to change his mind.
Mr McCain, a senator from Arizona, said on television yesterday that the best way to grab Beijing’s attention would be “to remove our objections to Japan developing nuclear weapons”. The justification for the idea is that North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile over Japan. If it achieved the production of weapons-grade uranium, Japan would be in the firing line and entitled to defend itself.
Alexander Losyukov, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, said that threats and sanctions were counterproductive and that it was unclear even if Pyongyang had a nuclear programme.
In Vienna, the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency will meet to discuss North Korea’s decision to remove monitoring equipment and expel its inspectors. In Washington, diplomats from the United States, South Korea and Japan will gather to agree their own response. James Kelly, the chief US representative at those talks, will have further talks in Seoul.