Op-ed:

North Korea and Iran...partners in nuclear armageddon

By: Diane Sori

“The eastern world it is explodin', violence flarin', bullets loadin'...”*

Those simple words from the first line of a long ago protest song have taken on new meaning as the Eastern world, in fact the entire world, is indeed exploding...exploding in fear that a North Korean madman could start World War III.

On Tuesday, in defiance of international warnings, and adding yet another ingredient into the mix of nuclear soup, North Korea thumbed it's nose at the world when they successfully launched a long-range rocket into space.  Claiming this was for peaceful purposes, as in putting a weather satellite into orbit, in reality this is yet another step forward in their developing a nuclear missile that could potentially reach as far as California.

Just what we don't need on top of Iran's so-called 'peaceful uses only' (yeah right) development of a nuclear bomb.

In 2009 after a second nuclear test (the first was in 2006), North Korea was banned from both nuclear testing and ballistic missile testing under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874, but this resolution has proven to do as much good as the U(seless) N(ations) gaining access to Iran's nuclear program...just paper bloviations amounting to nothing of substance.

In reality all the resolution did was shut down the flow of foreign currency into North Korea with the irony being that it made Iran an even more important trading partner for North Korea than it ever was before.  The two rogue nations currently cooperate in matters of science, share scientific labs, do student and professional exchanges that encompass the fields of technology, engineering, renewable energy, the environment, and sustainable agriculture.

In other words, when you strip away the layers of cover-ups and subterfuge, the bottom line is that these two dangerous countries do most certainly share nuclear secrets and research.  In fact, the US has repeatedly accused North Korea of providing Iran with advanced missiles capable of targeting Western European capital.  So the nuclear relationship has been tightened, not disrupted, by the sanctions. 

And while the US immediately issued a statement calling the launch a "highly provocative act that threatens regional security," and while UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it was a "clear violation" of the U(seless) N(ations) resolution, as usual NOTHING will be done to either punish them or stop them from going further with these tests even though experts agree that the technology involved in a satellite launch is similar to that needed to develop a very long-range (nuclear-tipped) missile. 

The scary bottom line is that the world knows that North Korea does indeed have nuclear weapons, and that the erratic behavior of it's leaders have made them almost impossible to stop.  And remember, North Korean has one of the most brutal regimes in the world.  Yet the world looks away...so afraid to provoke this unpredictable regime because of their nuclear arsenal.  And with their success in doing as they please in regards to the missile test, that gives Iran an added incentive NOT to give up its own nuclear program.

And why...because they know the U(seless) N(ations) and the US with Obama as its president will do NOTHING to stop them at all except maybe slap more useless sanctions on them. 

Tuesday's launch should serve as a warning of just how dangerous it would be to allow nuclear weapons into the Middle East, weapons coming in via Iran's partner North Korea...nuclear weapons into the most unstable region on Earth.

Oh yeah “...we're on the eve of destruction.”*

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* The Eve of Destruction, recorded by Barry McGuire in 1965