Financial Times (April 23)
North Korea is “a dangerously unpredictable state.” Signs of this arose again with a plot to assassinate a North Korean defector and suspicions over North Korea’s involvement in the sinking of South Korea’s Cheonan warship. The problem: “the world is clueless about how to deal with a regime that responds to neither sticks nor carrots.” The Financial Times warns, however, that we can’t ignore North Korea: otherwise we will wake up one day “to find that a desperate, volatile state can fit a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead.”
North Korea is “a dangerously unpredictable state.” Signs of this arose again with a plot to assassinate a North Korean defector and suspicions over North Korea’s involvement in the sinking of South Korea’s Cheonan warship. The problem: “the world is clueless about how to deal with a regime that responds to neither sticks nor carrots.” The Financial Times warns, however, that we can’t ignore North Korea: otherwise we will wake up one day “to find that a desperate, volatile state can fit a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead.”
Tags: Cheonan, North Korea, Nuclear, South Korea
