{"id":69401,"date":"2016-02-08T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=69401"},"modified":"2016-02-05T23:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T23:15:30","slug":"north-korea-how-many-wake-up-calls-will-it-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/02\/north-korea-how-many-wake-up-calls-will-it-take\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: How Many Wake-Up Calls Will It Take?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"david<\/a>North Korea has been sounding alarms since it withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003.\u00a0 Its latest wake-up call in early 2016 was its fourth nuclear test.\u00a0 This time it claimed to have tested a far more powerful thermonuclear weapon, although seismic reports do not seem to bear this out.<\/p>\n

North Korea has been roundly condemned for its nuclear tests, including this one.\u00a0 To put this in perspective, however, the U.S. has conducted more than 1,000 nuclear tests, continues to conduct subcritical nuclear tests, has not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, is in breach of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, regularly tests nuclear-capable missiles, and plans to spend $1 trillion modernizing its nuclear arsenal.\u00a0 The U.S. and the other nuclear-armed countries are quick to point fingers at North Korea, but slow to recognize their own role in fanning the flames of nuclear catastrophe.<\/p>\n

\"Nuclear<\/a>

Nuclear Blast<\/p><\/div>\n

What does an awakened world actually mean?<\/p>\n

As the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have repeatedly warned, \u201cWe must abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us.\u201d\u00a0 This will require good faith negotiations to end the nuclear arms race and achieve nuclear zero.\u00a0 And these negotiations must be convened and led by the US and Russia, the two most powerful nuclear-armed countries in the world.<\/p>\n

If we are not awakened by North Korea\u2019s latest test, what will it take?\u00a0 What other, louder alarm is necessary for the world to come together and work toward achieving nuclear zero before nuclear weapons are used again and we all become victims of a war from which humanity will never awaken?<\/p>\n

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David Krieger is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>. He<\/em> has a new collection of poems entitled <\/em>Wake Up.\u00a0 For more visit the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website: www.wagingpeace.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 wagingpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Korea has been roundly condemned for its nuclear tests, including this one. To put this in perspective, however, the U.S. has conducted more than 1,000 nuclear tests, continues to conduct subcritical nuclear tests, has not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, is in breach of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, regularly tests nuclear-capable missiles, and plans to spend $1 trillion modernizing its nuclear arsenal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}