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‘It could be worked out, in my opinion, in half a day’
The above statement comes from former US president Jimmy Carter and puts into perspective the present administration’s willful sabotage of any and all prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula, writes JOHN ELLISON
Visitors use binoculars to see the North Korea side from the unification observatory in Paju, South Korea

ON DECEMBER 3 The Sunday Times carried a full spread on the subject of US intentions with regard to North Korea in the light of its latest successful intercontinental ballistic missile test.

This missile flew high and far, dropping finally into the Sea of Japan.  

The calculation has been made that with a more horizontal trajectory it could reach all of the US mainland. North Korea may not yet have the technology to fit such a missile with a nuclear weapon but the US may, more than ever, be likely when militarily ready to initiate war if some incident — perhaps accidentally arising — has not already triggered it.

“ It is impossible for most of us to sympathise with some aspects of
the style of government applied in North Korea but its people have the right not to be the victim of external attack ”

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