I wanted to share something with everyone. Something surreal, and I'm still a bit out of it after writing it. This is the e-mail I just sent my wife whom is at our home in Tokyo with our kids.
Honey, the stuff with N. Korea and China is heating up. I want you & the kids to be ready to leave on a moments notice. Meaning have a plan to have your suitcases packed with your computer, jewelry and our most expensive minerals. If we bomb N. Korea I want you and the kids on the first plane out of Tokyo. You will need to send Chai to your parent's house or your brother's or whoever. It's very serious and Tokyo is a major target for N. Korea and China. 3 US bases are in/around Tokyo, Yokota/Tachikawa, Sagami and Yokosuka. If they attack Tokyo they would take out all 3 bases as well as cripple Japan, so it's a prime target.
This is very serious. I love you, Erik
With China jumping into the fray it makes me ever more nervous. China had the opportunity many times to put an end to this, but N. Korea is their attack dog and there is no way they are going to muzzle it.
As far as I am concerned the world should outlaw any other country from obtaining nuclear weapons period. The 8 countries that have them will never give them up and there isn't much we can do about that except work with one another to avoid conflicts. It is a very dangerous world just with those 8 having them. Add into that mix a smaller, more reactionary government like North Korea or a religious fundamentalist one like Iran or Saudi Arabia obtaining them and we are surely headed towards nuclear conflict. The less countries that have nuclear weapons the safer the whole world is.
North Korea should have been dealt with in the 90's when maybe we would have lost a few hundred thousand people. Now we are dealing with losing 10's of millions plus cities and even countries due to radiation. If we continue to appease those who seek to gain nuclear weapons we are only signing the death warrant for all humanity and the planet. History is repeating itself and once again showing us that appeasement never works. Except this time history may be telling us it's the last time. No more kicking the can down the road for our children to deal with an even worse situation