North Korea pulls up a chair.
The New Clear Dilemma
It occurred to me that the solution to Nuclear Armaments is not as simple as arm twisting the North Koreans into believing in US, that we and they would sign a non-aggression pact and they would be safe. It’s not about safety. They haven’t spent this much effort to ensure safety.
The million man army is the trump card to ensure safety. They have spent the entire GDP well into the future to become nuclear players. If you have a weapon and agree to defuse it in exchange for a document, you get to do that once. If you have the capability to make these weapons, you’re a player in the high stakes game of mega-destruction. In the first case you can buy your way into a less catastrophic end game. In the second case you agree to sit at a private table and have wine and cigars on a regular basis with the Club members and play "Scenario."
The Nuclear Club had only eight members, now we're talking nine. Those nine members, ought to talk on a regular basis. They had better or we’ll change our guy in a heartbeat and put a guy up there that can sit down and have a reasonable discussion with reasonable men. The stakes of not talking are enormous. Too enormous to contemplate.
North Korea wants to be at that table, and they are, by dint of their admission. This is the only country that has abrogated the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty. The ninth member is Israel, a country that has not abrogate NPT. It never signed in the first place. It is driven by prophecy and politics. Can they long resist participating in the Nuclear Dialogue? Or do they believe that walls and barbed wire will protect them?
You don’t spend a lifetime learning to fabricate Nuclear Weapons to be used as a diplomatic bargaining chip. The bureaucracy that encircles the trophy weapons men devise, will not stand down willingly and take up a second career teaching scuba in the tropics. They have developed a "Limosine habit and a taste for caviar" that is difficult if not impossible to deconstruct.
The enticement to devote a lifetime of study to the issues and skills surrounding mega-ton explosions is an elemental drive to exercise power over the Tribe and once tasted turns men into monsters. Monsters that would never be satisfied to regain a position of serfdom in a nuclear free world. In a Nuclear Free world, all men are equal. In the Nuclear Burdened world some men have deep and dark secrets that make them special. Supermen with the power of gods.
They, not their weapons are the largest obstacle to disarmament and peace. If one nation gives up its Nuclear Weapons, the Industry and the individuals that produce them will be for hire. That is the talent pool rogue nations will find to earn the Merit Badge on their Uniforms. Having earned that badge, they suspend their monsters from tight wires that respond to even the smallest vibration. The monsters for their part revel in the attention. Would they willingly accept less hallowed treatment?
High Priest in the culture of mass death. These are the dangerous individuals in our midst. They have demonstrated to the world that they have allegiance only to science and the dark secrets that science reveals. They have forged an identity that was considered by Goethe in his depiction of the Alchemical Faust, selling his soul to Mephistopheles. The enormity of the suffering, pain and death that this knowledge enables, creates their eminence. Their table is reserved in the corner.
They are the enemies of the peaceful state, lowering our trousers of innocence and fondling away our ability to live simply that others may simply live..........