Why Is the USG More Concerned about Iran than North Korea?
January 6, 2016
North Korea recently exploded a nuclear device it is claiming to be a hydrogen bomb. Why is the USG fixated on Iran’s lack of nuclear weapons and not on North Korea’s nuclear capabilities? Iran, after all, is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. North Korea was a party to the treaty but withdrew in 1993. I should note also that Israel, India, South Sudan, and Pakistan have never signed the treaty.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

