Justice to Rev

There are certainly some points there Rev. North Korea being the most prominent and terrifying. I would like to think that our best defence against them is diminishing our nuclear power; proving that we really have no intention of cracking open their isolationist shell with atomic particles. The leaders and generals of North Korea are telling their people that we (well the US in particular, but since Blair we’ll be associated with whatever they do) are planning to bomb them back to the dark ages. A policy of reducing our arms, you would hope, would make this claim seem totally unsubstantiated. There is, however, a pretty fundamental flaw in this thinking, which fertilises my indecision like three tons of cow shit. The North Korean media is controlled so heavily by the Powers That Be, that if they wanted their public to know nothing of this policy, it would be easy to cover up.

But I would like to think that a nuclear arms free world is the way of the future. It is a hell of long way off at the moment, but any kind of step towards it I believe is a brave and noble one. If we announced the scrapping of Trident today, would missiles from all over the world really come crashing down on our Green and Pleasant Lands? I’m sceptical. After all, the US would come to our defence. Wouldn’t they?