Speaking on Sky News today, the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, declared:
"North Korea seem to think possessing a nuclear weapon makes them safe. In fact, it's the opposite. Having a nuclear weapon makes them a target."
Quite.
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North Korea knows the power of deterrence and it knows that no nuclear armed country has ever been invaded.
ReplyDeleteUnlike Iraq, nobody will be invading them.
Because, unlike Iraq, they really do have nukes.
No, they don't. Or if they do, then it's not our problem.
DeleteBut anyway, take up your "deterrence" theory with the Tory Foreign Secretary, who has just flatly contradicted it on a Murdoch news channel.
You must be the last person alive who still believes in nuclear deterrence. Even David Cameron now makes the case for nuclear weapons purely in terms of jobs.
They've tested them publicly. They certainly have them.
ReplyDeleteThe last person alive who believes in nuclear deterrence?
Erm, except for every major advanced country on Earth that still maintains stockpiles of them, you mean.
Apart from this one, for a start. Ask David Cameron. Or, as of today, Philip Hammond.
DeleteI wonder when unilateral disarmament has ever worked. In Ukraine?
ReplyDeleteYea, that worked out well for them.
Those weren't theirs to start with. Much like Trident, in fact.
DeleteSouth Africa. Look it up.