Marculations

So, North Korea is demanding a light water nuclear reactor from us, or they won’t dismantle their nuclear weapons.

We won’t give them one, because they aren’t in the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

They can’t be admitted into the treaty because they previously dropped out of it in order to make nuclear weapons. They would have to dismantle the nukes they built before they can re-enter.

Light water nuclear reactors are used for power and attempting to use them for weapons purposes would prove difficult.

We promised to build North Korea two of these reactors during the Clinton administration, and we never actually did it.

So. What exactly does this mean?

It means that because we had nukes already, when the treaty was signed, and North Korea didn’t, they can’t have them ever. They also can’t have nuclear power.

But we get to keep ours.

Oh and, we get to promise to build you a nuclear reactor, and then not do it, and then demand that you dismantle your weapons program. And if you do, well, we say we’ll build you a nuclear reactor.

Right. Because we built the first two so quickly.

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