After three hours of closed door discussion, the UN Security Council has been unable to come to any unified response to the North Korean launch. Perhaps we could have expected some more sharp rhetoric like the kind coming from Japanese, South Korean, and United States officials, but it is unrealistic to assume any decisive outcome from this or any future UN meeting.
The bottom line is that the North Korean's have forced themselves onto the world stage, they have forced themselves to be heard, and they are once again a matter of concern for the major global players. Kim Jong-il has played this game before, and he is getting pretty good at it. It seems pretty clear to me that nothing will create different outcomes from the kinds we have seen before other than military action.
Meanwhile, President Obama in a speech layed out plans for a world without nuclear weapons. It is absurd to think such a thing will happen, we cannot simply forget science. We cannot uninvent these scientific realities. Like it or not, nuclear weapons will be with us for a long time, we must learn how to deal with it.
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