By: Martin Banks
NATO is effectively powerless to rein in North Korea’s nuclear threat, according to a Brussels-based expert.
With international concern rising over Kim Jong Un’s intentions, the terrifying truth about North Korea's nuclear threat is that it cannot be stopped by one system or even multiple systems.
That is the pessimistic prognosis of Fraser Cameron, director of the respected EU-Asia Centre.
North Korea is a tiny, poor, backward nation with limited missile capabilities and a small nuclear stockpile, but it poses a very serious threat to the US and its allies.
NATO, which has its headquarters in Brussels, and EU leaders have repeatedly issued a series of warnings in recent months about the nuclear tests and multiple ballistic missile launches conducted by North Korea in 2016.
The latest came on Dec. 12, 2016, with a statement saying the behavior “presents a serious threat to international peace and security.”
In one of his many tweets, US President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 2 said, "North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the US," before adding, "It won't happen!"
But the assessment from Cameron, a recognized expert on the Korean Peninsula, is not what the Western alliance – already dismissed by Trump as “obsolete” – may wish to hear.
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