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Blix urges West to get priorities right over nuke threat
 Hans Blix, the former UN chief weapons inspector, yesterday warned that North Korea represented the most urgent threat to global nuclear security. He also called on the United States to show more patience with Iran.
| Does that mean we can show less patience with NKor? |
Mr Blix's comments came as North Korea threatened to test-fire a long-range missile which is capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. The US is insisting on a response by no later than mid-July to a package of incentives for Iran to halt its suspected uranium enrichment program. "To say 'two weeks before a reply has to be given' is not necessary," Mr Blix said. "In North Korea, there are nuclear weapons. That's more urgent."
| "So, really, you don't have to pay any attention to the Medes and the Persians..." |
Mr Blix, who was speaking at a conference on nuclear non-proliferation in Moscow, also urged the US to recognise the "security issues" that he said were pushing some nations to seek nuclear weapons.
| That'd be the apprehension that we're eventually going to invade them and hang their leadership by their own turbans... |
Posted by: Seafarious 2006-06-24 |
