Continuing with our global survey of reaction to the onrush of events surrounding nuclear weapons, we have posted this editorial from Mexico’s La Jornada which puts forward a view widely shared in the developing world.
According to La Jornada’s editorial board, President Obama’s new nuclear doctrine is hypocritical, since North Korea and Iran have done nothing different that U.S. allies Pakistan, India and Israel. Furthermore, both Pyongyang and Tehran have good reason to fear U.S. aggression, so cannot be blamed for seeking nuclear weapons.
The La Jornada editorial says in part:
It is noteworthy that the Nuclear Doctrine Review states a clear warning to the regimes of Iran and North Korea – although there is no conclusive proof that by enriching uranium for the development of weapons of mass destruction, they did anything different than governments that built nuclear arsenals with the implicit consent of the United States and Western Europe, such as India, Israel and Pakistan. The tolerance with which Washington and its allies have treated the weapons projects of these three nations has led to a process of proliferation that has multiplied global tension and transformed any condemnation of Korea and Iran into an act of double standards.
Moreover, it must be emphasized that Pyongyang’s nuclear development program and the one Washington systematically charges Tehran with pursuing, have inescapably emerged as a result of the hostile behavior of the United States against nations it considers enemies, and the implementation by governments of that country of the doctrine of preventive war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Paradoxically, it is now obvious that the U.S. invasion of Iraqi territory was not due to possession by the Saddam Hussein regime of weapons of mass destruction – but to a lack of them. Under the circumstances, it is at least logical to assume that the Iraqi and North Korean authorities have at least considered acquiring nuclear arsenals as a way of preventing, as far as possible, a U.S. military aggression.
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