If I were North Korea, I’d just continue my nuclear program. The United States won’t sign a non-aggression treaty nor be satisfied with any concessions I make. I’m next on the list of evil-axis targets: Iraq has been hit, and they’re working up a case on Iran.

So, I could give the U.S. pause about ordering an attack to “change my regime” – to reunify the Korean peninsula and create a client Korean state, as a power base for them in East Asia. (Admittedly, I’m a stinker, but I don’t welcome our being blown up.)

While the administration publicly worried about a North Korean program, Congress allowed the Pentagon’s requested funds for research on “bunker busters,” bombs to drop into caves or tunnels and scatter nuclear shrapnel on forces inside. “Clean bombs” – no more damage than at Hiroshima. To test or use them, further Congressional approval is required. But what do you bet? A “national emergency” might turn up.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute recently reported that the United States accounts for 43 percent of all military spending on the planet. And we have thousands of nuclear bombs stockpiled, some of them deployed. Congress recently refused to block efforts to increase “readiness” at the Nevada nuclear-test site.

Would the U.N. entertain a motion by Iran to declare itself under imminent threat by the United States? An administration spokeswoman stated we consider our preemptive strikes legitimate on states with even ambition to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

Dorothy E. Prince, Auburn

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