Article: A nuclear education. (Letter from ground zero).(North Korea, Iran and nuclear weapons)

In this space last week, I commented that the choice for the United States in North Korea was probably between a catastrophic war and permitting North Korea to keep its nuclear program and its reported small nuclear arsenal, and I suggested that of the two alternatives the second, though itself highly undesirable, was the better. It was anything but obvious, however, that such a course would be adopted, much less that this would happen just one week later. Yet the retreat may in fact now be under way. According to the New York Times, the Bush Administration has given up its goal of preventing North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons and instead will concentrate on ...

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