North Korea tweaks the tiger's tail
John Gittings
June 20, 2006 02:53 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_gittings/2006/06/north_korea_tweaks_the_tigers.html
Will it be "provocative", as Condaleeza Rice has warned, if North Korea
test-launches a long-range missile into the Pacific ocean? Yes, in
several disturbing ways though not the one that she implies. It will
provoke more right-wing calls in Tokyo for Japanese militarisation; it
will provoke more anxiety for South Korea which is caught in the middle
of the US-North Korean confrontation; and it will provoke US neo-cons
to lobby even harder for regime change in Pyongyang
On all those counts it will be a great pity if the launch does go
ahead: it also represents a huge diversion of economic resources, which
the North Korean people should not have to afford. And tweaking the
tail of the US (Mao Zedong used to call it "touching the tiger's
buttocks") is not a very sensible policy these days when there is only
one imperialist tiger roaming the jungle.
Koreas
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