Nuclear Wind Blows also in Japan, India and Brazil

The world’s nuclear weapon restraining composition, which has been maintained by the basic formality of Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT), has been challenged. There has been an extreme assertion by a group of conservatives in the United States that Japan needs to be armed with nuclear weapon facing the nuclear development of North Korea and the ministers of new left faction power of Brazil have officially suggested the necessity of nuclear possession. It seems like the international society is concerned that North Korea’s decision to pull out of the NPT might stir up the desires on nuclear possession of a few countries that had been having discontents on the NPT organization.

▽Argument for Japan’s nuclear armament = “As a suppressing measurement on North Korea who has been promoting the nuclear development, there has been an assertion among the conservatives within the U.S. that Japan has to be armed with nuclear weapons”, reported the Yomiuri Newspaper on 10th.

“This is an extreme assertion from a minority group but this kind of assertions has been made continuously recently. This is due to the confusion created by North Korea’s nuclear development crisis which is hard to resolve by means of military power like with Iraq, as well as not having any clear alternate solutions to resolve the crisis”, the newspaper analyzed.

Actually, on 3rd, a columnist Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post, pointed out on his column titled, ‘Japan Card’, that “It seems as if there isn’t an excellent solution in resolving North Korea’s nuclear crisis but there remains a card which is preparing Japan with nuclear weapons.”

Also, Senator John McCain from the Republican Party, appeared in one of the U.S. TV program on 5th and stated, “Since Japan has been threatened by North Korea, Japan’s nuclear development can’t be opposed continuously.”

Researcher Carpenter from Kate Research Center, which is a research organization that has a conservative inclination, asserted on his thesis announced on 6th, “It is necessary to awaken North Korea from its thought of‘North Korea being able to ensure the nuclear predominance in the northeast Asia’. Also, Japan as well as Korea need to be equipped with nuclear power.”

However, the Yomiuri Newspaper emphasized that “Most experts oppose the Japan’s nuclear armament due to the possibility that it will ‘increase the intensification of the regional antagonism surrounding China, Taiwan and others, thus this can possibly lead to a worldwide nuclear proliferation.’”

▽Brazil = General Robert Amaral of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil stated during the meeting with England’s BBC Broadcasting Company that “Brazil is the greatest country in the South America, thus needs to have ability to produce nuclear weapons.”

General Amaral also stated, “Brazil protects and respects the peace but will not give up any scientific technology including the nuclear technology.”

When Argentina, a competitor of Brazil over the nuclear development up until the middle of 1980s and the other neighboring countries demonstrated a severe anxiety over the General Amaral`s statements, the spokesman of the Brazilian President explained, “The government is in favor of research in these areas for peaceful ends only and exclusively.”

However, during last year’s presidential campaign, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have strong criticized the NPT organization in a speech before a group of retired military officers by stating, “The NPT is biased in favor of the United States and the existing nuclear possessing countries. They have canons but they are asking us to throw rocks with hands.”

When the tension developed, President Lula clarified that “Brazil has no intention on nuclear development” but even during his inauguration ceremony on 1st, he emphasized that “A democratic international relationship without a country with hegemony needs to be formed.”

When Brazil had the militaristic government from 1964 to up until 1985, it promoted the nuclear development, thus was far ahead on nuclear technology in South America but it established a Constitution article in 1988 prohibiting the possession of nuclear and has joined the NPT in 1995.

▽India = India has developed the nuclear weapon without affiliating with the NPT and on 9th , it has successfully completed the short distance missile discharge which has the nuclear mounting ability. The Reuters reported that India would possess this missile, which has the crossroad of 500 miles, in order to suppress the nuclear threats of China and Pakistan.

▽Trembling NPT = When North Korea pulled out of the NPT for the first time among the affiliates, the international society is once again feeling keenly about the powerlessness of the NPT organization and the reality of having no alternative plan to stop the withdrawal.

The international society’s agony is that there isn’t any official disciplinary punishment method for the withdrawal from the NPT and for the refusal to be an affiliate of the NPT.

Certainly, it isn’t impossible to give disadvantages through different routes such as isolation from the other international community and the UN Resolution but since it is clearly stated on the NPT Regulations that ‘A Withdrawal is a right which can be practiced by a sovereign sate’, it is hard to start up an argument lawfully and systematically only with the withdrawal issue.

Regarding the criticism of the ‘unequal formation by innateness’ of the five countries, the United States, Russia, England, France and China, which are allowed to possess nuclear by the NPT, the international society can not present any clear refutable argument to overcome the discontent.

The amount of nuclear weapon possessed by these five countries is over 40,000 warheads, which is enough to blow away the whole earth without leaving any trace of life. Besides these five, Pakistan and India have firmed their position as countries with nuclear power by their own nuclear development, refusing to join the NPT. It is known that Israel, without joining the NPT, possesses over 100 warheads. North Korea, Iraq, Iran and a few others are being suspicious of possessing nuclear weapons in secret even when they have joined the NPT.

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