U.S. says will not accept N.Korea as nuclear state
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Saturday the United States would not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and he warned Pyongyang against transferring nuclear material overseas.
A South Korean newspaper reported that Pyongyang was preparing to move an intercontinental ballistic missile from a factory near the capital to a launch site on the east coast.
In a speech to the Asia Security Conference in Singapore, Gates said the threat from North Korea, which this week detonated a nuclear device and launched a series of missiles, could start an arms race in Asia.
Unfortunately the US does not have the power to determine whether NK is a nuclear state. NK is already "nuclear".
ReplyDeleteOnly China can push NK around - and even then China's influence is limited.
Pete