North Korea has now admitted that they have an active nuclear weapons program. In fact they were bold enough to admit that is has been underway for some time, even though they promised in 1994 never to attempt to develop such weapons.

Sounding strangely like another country we like to talk about, North Korea originally agreed to allow inspections to verify the agreement was being kept, but has since blocked all inspection attempts.

Oh goodie, another country for Dubbya to blow up. As an American, and a proud one at that, I walk the line on issues such as these. I don’t want rogue countries to posses weapons they are not mature enough to handle, especially countries that are run by dictators that can push the button on a whim.

Nevertheless, I am no fan of hypocrisy. If the United States can posses such weapons, how can we say that no one else can? Because we want to ensure we always have the upper hand? I don’t believe for one second that the United States has ever stopped our nuclear program.

The United States government seems to follow the grandfather clause in regards to certain weapons. If your country implemented a nuclear weapons program before 1975, then enjoy. If you attempted to implement such a program after 1975, then we have some friends called the Army Rangers that will be paying you a visit.

Is this for protection sake, or military superiority sake? The United States is attempting to say that no one should have such weapons, but we have them because others do, so we are merely the balance of that evil. (Oh, and don’t stick nukes in Cuba even though we stuck them in Israel and Turkey.)

I wonder sometimes if the reason the United States doesn’t want other countries to posses such weapons is because that takes them off the “can invade if we want to” list. Well hell, we can’t invade North Korea now because they have the bomb!

Why do we think they are any more likely to use nuclear weapons than we are? Where is the NRA on this issue? Yes, the NRA. I said the NRA.

If the United States holds nuclear weapons as a deterant, and the NRA says having a 45 magnum in your house is a deterant, and we are all entitled by our 2nd Admendment rights to posses such a deterant, then why can’t North Korea have nuclear weapons?

Kang Suk Ju, a high ranking North Korean offical summed up his countries desire to attain nuclear weapons: “Your president called us a member of the axis of evil. Your troops are deployed on the Korean peninsula. Of course, we have a nuclear program.” Deterant indeed.

So what is the lesson here? How about, let’s not call other countries names, or brand them as “evil.” Doing so will not cause these countries to say, “you’re right! Now we’ll start acting just like the US!”

Are we going in? This situation sounds alot like the one in Iraq. They agreed to end their program and not start another one. They agreed to inspections to verify. They have blocked all inspections since. But we won’t go in. North Korea has a real Army and a real Air Force. Not paper dolls like Saddam has.

It’s clear, someone has to stand up to nuclear proliferation in the world. I don’t want terrorist to get their hands on “dirty bombs.” But maybe if we stop being such an ass to other countries, they won’t hate us so much, nor have the desire to build nuclear bombs to deter us.