We face a full-blown nuclear crisis: Labor Foreign policy spokesman Rudd
"We now face a full-blown nuclear crisis in the region but our Government seems to be missing in action on this issue because it is in an advanced state of hyperactivity over Iraq." Mr Rudd said the north Asian emergency, and not the stand-off in the Middle East, posed an immediate threat to Australia. "Unlike Iraq, North Korea has a nuclear capability and is developing long-range nuclear missile warheads capable of reaching Australia," he said.

It is good to see Labor finally distancing itself from the government's priorities but more is needed. As Richard Butler has pointed out in his recent book on the the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty ("Fatal Choice"), in order for Non-nuclear countries to continue to adhere to the treaty, the Nuclear powers must make convincing steps of their own towards nuclear disarmament. In other words, the United States is a rogue state and is the first that should be asked to adhere to the NPT. The current aggressive, warmongering policies of the US are the strongest incentives to countries such as North Korea, India, Pakistan, Iran and others to go nuclear, as everyone understands that nuclear weapons are the only viable deterrent against possible US aggression.

We face a full-blown nuclear crisis: Labor Foreign policy spokesman Rudd
"We now face a full-blown nuclear crisis in the region but our Government seems to be missing in action on this issue because it is in an advanced state of hyperactivity over Iraq." Mr Rudd said the north Asian emergency, and not the stand-off in the Middle East, posed an immediate threat to Australia. "Unlike Iraq, North Korea has a nuclear capability and is developing long-range nuclear missile warheads capable of reaching Australia," he said.

It is good to see Labor finally distancing itself from the government's priorities but more is needed. As Richard Butler has pointed out in his recent book on the the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty ("Fatal Choice"), in order for Non-nuclear countries to continue to adhere to the treaty, the Nuclear powers must make convincing steps of their own towards nuclear disarmament. In other words, the United States is a rogue state and is the first that should be asked to adhere to the NPT. The current aggressive, warmongering policies of the US are the strongest incentives to countries such as North Korea, India, Pakistan, Iran and others to go nuclear, as everyone understands that nuclear weapons are the only viable deterrent against possible US aggression.