Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“The issue of North Korea’s nuclear program has long been the principal stumbling block to the normalization of U.S. relations with that country. True, Washington has endeavored to make the communist regime a pariah in the international system for a variety of reasons since the Korean War. Beginning with George H.W. Bush’s administration in the early 1990s, however, U.S. leaders have become obsessed with shutting down Pyongyang’s nuclear program. Washington has insisted that the so-called Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) abandon any ambitions to abandon ambitions to be in the exclusive global nuclear weapons club of the global nuclear weapons club. Washington should desist. The stakes – avoiding nuclear war – are much too high.” (08/11/25)