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PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n

North Korea has the initiative. It is flying rockets over Japan, it claims to have mounted a hydrogen bomb on to an inter-continental ballistic missile<\/a> and it may have conducted a sixth nuclear test<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It seems little can be done. Diplomacy, economic sanctions and military threats have proved ineffective. We may just have to learn to live with a nuclear-armed Korea<\/a>. Or so many commentators would have us believe. But there are some options that might impose penalties that could have an effect on North Korea and its long-term ally and protector, China.<\/p>\n

They will only change their deliberately chosen path if the cost of continuing towards building a long-range nuclear-tipped rocket force exceeds the benefits.<\/p>\n

First, during the Cold War, the US shared thermonuclear weapons with Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey<\/a>. The logic was to give Europe a means to defend itself when technological developments meant the American homeland became within range of Soviet long-range missiles.<\/p>\n

Without sharing it was feared America would not risk nuclear attack in a crisis and so the Soviets could drive a wedge in the US-Europe alliance. That scenario is playing itself out again in north-east Asia. Japan and North Korea might be left isolated if North Korea can blackmail America from providing military assistance in time of crisis because of fear of nuclear attack.<\/p>\n

Sharing American nuclear weapons with Japan and South Korea would frighten China. China is already worried about America’s deployment of a single Terminal High Altitude Area Defence anti-missile battery to South Korea.<\/p>\n

Please click here to read the full\u00a0“North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are not unstoppable”<\/a>\u00a0article published at The Age,\u00a0written by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Peter Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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