North Korea – Why are they deliberately
provoking the rest of the world with threats of further missile launches?
North
Korea has again threatened world peace by testing a large nuclear device followed by further testing of two short range missiles, despite U.N disapproval.
The two missiles - one ground-to-air, the other ground-to-ship - with a range of about 80 miles were test-fired from an east coast launch pad.
South Korea said it would join a US-led initiative to intercept ships suspected of spreading weapons of mass destruction, as the United Nations condemned North Korea for testing the powerful nuclear bomb.
US president Barack Obama told South Korean president Lee Myung-bak that the United States would protect his country from any possible North Korean aggression and called for a "strong resolution" by the UN.
The programme involves stopping and searching ships suspected of carrying nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, materials to make them, or missiles to deliver them.
North Korea has previously warned the South that joining the programme would be considered an act of war.
North Korea is the most militarised country in the world today, according to statistics, having the fourth-largest standing army in the world, and seams to be flexing its millitary might on the rest of the world, with no recourse for its actions.
North Korea’s race for nuclear technology has seen rapid expansion since their first missiles were developed in the early 1970’s. We are now fully aware of how the technology has developed with the latest nuclear explosion, which is estimated to be as powerful as the Atom bomb which destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
How far will increased UN sanctions have to go before North Korea decides to demonstrate what power it has on the rest of the world, with the USA and South Korea being its primary target? It is quite evident that North Korea has no intentions of backing down production of longer range and more powerful missiles, despite world condemnation.
North Korea still stands by its threat of war to any nation which opposes its development of nuclear and biological weapons.