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North Korea's nuclear game under scrutiny.
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National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
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December 22, 2007
- Author:
- Shuja, Sharif
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North Korea is a rogue state which abandoned a 1994 agreement with the US Clinton Administration to dismantle its nuclear programme, expelled inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in December 2002, and withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). It has, in Kim Jong-il, a leader who is both totalitarian and unpredictable. He is a dictator who has seen two million of his compatriots die of starvation and has imprisoned at least 200,000 others. If he gets usable nuclear weapons, he might pose a significant threat to the United States or supply nuclear weapons to terrorists. He must, therefore, be prevented from acquiring such weapons.
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