North Korea Starting Second Nuclear Project
 Wednesday, April 29th, 2009  by Connie T.

What in the world...? Yesterday North Korea announced that they are beginning a second nuclear project, a uranium enrichment program, unless the United Nations lifts the sanctions against them. Their first was in 2006, against a written agreement not to pursue nuclear ambitions (American official claim the missile failed and blew up 40 seconds after blastoff; North Korean claims disagree).

They already have a plutonium-based program, and the statement likened their nuclear threat to a bargaining chip, "a tool for the U.S. highhanded and arbitrary practices."

In response, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said, "These threats only further isolate the North...North [Korea] needs to come back to the table. The North needs to stop making these threats."

We've said it before, but let's be very clear on the fact that the American public was told the reasoning behind invading Iraq was the threat of weapons of mass destruction. This is not North Korea's first nuclear project, either...not even in the last three years! Not, of course, that I'm suggesting we go to war with N. Korea. But we should also not be looking at them like the boy who cried wolf; and we certainly deserve a better explanation as to why we've selectively waged war then, and why we shouldn't be digging bomb shelters in our back yards right now.

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