World’s Major Powers, in ‘Shameful Behaviour’, Opt out of Nuclear Resolution – Korean

세계의강대국핵결의에 [부끄러워해야할]기권

【유엔IDN＝로드니 레이놀즈】

세계의 중요한 핵보유국은 핵군축의 지지를 표명하기는 하지만 그 정치적인 교묘한 표현에 걸맞는행동으로는 거의 행하지아니하고있다. 그것만이아니라 이러한 나라들은 핵전력의 근대화까지도 계속하고있다. 여기에 우선,군축 및 국제안전보장에관한 유엔위원회(유엔제1위원회로도 알려져있다)는 종래 주로 군비관리와 핵군축에관해 매년 15개에서 20개의 결의안을 채택하여왔다.

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North Korea’s Defiance Underlines The Urgency To Eradicate All Nuclear Weapons

By Somar Wijayadasa* | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

NEW YORK (IDN) – North Korea defied world powers, on January 6, by announcing that it had successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear device – in contravention of the international norm against nuclear testing.

The miniaturizing allows the device to be placed on a missile thereby significantly increasing its strike capabilities not only against Japan and South Korea but also against the United States.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: “This test, once again, violates numerous Security Council resolutions despite the united call by the international community to cease such activities.”

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North Korea’s Nuclear Test Escalates Military Tensions

By Rodney Reynolds

UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – As military tensions continue to rise between two of the world’s major nuclear powers – the United States and Russia – the United Nations remains strongly committed towards one of its longstanding goals: a world without nuclear weapons. READ IN JAPANESE

But North Korea’s announcement of its first hydrogen bomb – tested January 6 – is threatening to escalate the nuclear challenge even further.

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‘We Cannot Abolish Nuclear Weapons Without Abolishing War’

By James Taylor Ranney*

WILMINGTON, USA (IDN) – For some time now, the movement for abolition of nuclear weapons has been proceeding on the assumption that we can secure an abolition treaty without fundamentally altering global security arrangements. Understandably, very little if any attention has been focused upon the much larger issue of abolishing war. But it may turn out that we cannot abolish nuclear weapons without abolishing war.

Nothing logically requires this. But as a practical matter, the two things may be inextricably linked.  For one thing, the Russians will demand, if not general and complete disarmament, at least serious reductions in conventional forces.  And once we agree to that, we are halfway to a new security system – international alternative dispute resolution.

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World’s Major Powers, in ‘Shameful Behaviour’, Opt out of Nuclear Resolution – Chinese

世界主流大国退出核决议的“可耻行径”

【IDN于联合国＝Rodney Reynolds】

每当世界主要有核强国表示支持核裁军时，它们往往言行不一——它们甚至还一意孤行的持续更新自己的核武库。联合国裁军和国际安全委员会（也称第一委员会）过去每年都引进15-20项决议，这其中大部分都是武器控制和核裁军相关。

今年却出现了巨大的变化：美国、英国和法国这三大主要有核国选择不参与每年由日本带头的关于全面消除核武器的联合行动的决议。三国去年都对该决议投了支持票，美国和英国还是共同提案国。而今年两国均选择了不再参与，作为西方主要盟国的日本表示非常失望。

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