Iran And North Korea example essay topic

IN SEARCH OF THE AXIS OF EVIL In his first State of the Union speech on January 29th, 2002, President Bush said his goal was "to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends with weapons of mass destruction". He singled out Iraq, Iran and North Korea, claiming these states "and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world". The United States must act against these regimes by denying them the "materials, technology and expertise" to make nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and provide them to terrorists, Bush said. On October of the same year, after US-North Korea bilateral talks in Pyongyang, the US says North Korea has admitted to a secret program to produce highly-enriched uranium. North Korea says it has only admitted to having a plan to produce nuclear weapons - which it claims is a self-defense. North Korea announced it is restarting its nuclear program in response to the US decision to suspend heavy fuel oil shipments under the Agreed Framework.

North Korean technicians remove seals and disable monitoring cameras at nuclear facilities in Yongbyon. On august, 2003, North Korea agrees to six-way talks, suggested by the US, on its nuclear program, to be held with South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States. Accusing the united states of a probable invasion of the communist country, North Korea demanded a non-aggression guarantee from the US as an essential pre-requisite before it agrees to negotiate over its nuclear arsenal. Immediately after the North Korean demand, US President George Bush stated that there will be no invasion of North Korea, but said signing a non-aggression treaty with it was also not on the table, instead, he signaled that a multilateral written guarantee to respect Pyongyang's sovereignty, signed by all five parties to the talks with Kim Jong Il's government, South Korea, Japan, China, Russia and the U.S. A pact that, in my opinion, does not guarantee a non-military solution to the crisis. North Korea not only has rejected Bush's idea, but has also has vowed to "demonstrate" its nuclear capability., a statement that has been interpreted as a threat to conduct a test-detonation of a nuclear weapon. For now, the U.S. response to the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula is following more familiar Cold War doctrines of containment.

In case of Iran, the case started in September 2002 when the US accused Iran of seeking to develop a secret nuclear weapons program and published satellite images of two nuclear sites under construction at Natanz and Arak. Two months later, The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conducted a series of inspections in Iran. The country confirms that there are sites at Natanz and Arak under construction, but insists that these are designed solely to provide fuel for future power plants. Washington surprised everyone in last September when stating that Iran is not complying with international non-proliferation accords but agrees to support a proposal from Britain, France and Germany to give the country until the end of October fully to disclose nuclear activities and allow surprise inspections. Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi promises "total transparency" over the country's nuclear programme during talks with his counterparts from Britain, France and Germany.

Shortly afterwards, a diplomat in Tehran says Iran has agreed to suspend the enrichment of uranium, and will sign an agreement allowing tougher UN inspections of its nuclear sites - two key demands of the IAEA. And for those who see the problem as the regimes in Tehran and Pyongyang, rather than as the specifics of what they hold in their arsenals, an outcome that leaves each intact and more integrated into the international community is far from satisfactory. Research paper GOVT IN SEARCH OF THE AXIS OF EVIL Based on: Article of the same name, published in TIME magazine on Tuesday October 31, 2003 IN SEARCH OF THE AXIS OF EVIL.