Blog 8: North Korea's Complicates Iran's Nuclear Talks

As Iran and six other nations (Germany, Great Britain, China, United States, Russia, and France) reenter into nuclear talks for the first time in over a year, North Korea is having a huge effect on Iran’s nuclear thought process.  Iran can now see firsthand what happens when a small country makes nuclear threats against the world.  North Korea’s rhetoric over the last couple of months (since South Korea elected their first female president) has been escalating since February and now North Korea is making verbal threats to the United States.  Iran is now beginning to understand that even though a nuclear super power can destroy the Korean peninsula in a matter of hours, the threats they are making still get everyone on their toes because the aftermath of nuclear holocaust in any country would be devastating and would not be easily forgotten.  However, Iran does not want to be viewed as an unrealistic and unstable country like North Korea.

In the nuclear talks the six nations are asking that all uranium productions be ceased and in return the amount international sanctions against Iran will be cut back dramatically.  Iran does not support this because they believe they have unalienable rights to develop a civilized nuclear program that has nothing to do with the creation of nuclear weapons.  The nations have asked for proof that Iran is not developing triggered atomic weapons but Iran has still not provided any sound. 

Iran is declaring this is an issue of human rights and that if other countries are able to have nuclear weapons then why can’t they?  It’s simple, because for half of the 20^th century the world was living in complete and utter fear that any day they could be destroyed by a nuclear holocaust.  The United States and other nuclear countries no longer develop nuclear arms but merely have a larger stockpile of nuclear weapons due to the cold war. 

In the 21^st century, allowing any country to develop and poses nuclear arms is a threat to justice everywhere.  What needs to happen in these negotiations is all nuclear powers present at the meeting agree to disarm nuclear weapons in exchange for Iran cutting back on their uranium programs. 

 Jonathan Feldman 04/06/2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/06/world/middleeast/talks-resume-on-curbing-irans-nuclear-program.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0