{"id":1364,"date":"2006-10-09T19:10:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T19:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2006-10-09T19:10:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T19:10:25","slug":"joining_the_clu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Joining The Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span class=\"272210821-09102006\">Much of the media <br \/>was waving its arms in the air and practicing duck-and-cover maneuvers in the <br \/>wake of news that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6034873.stm\">North Korea has conducted a successful nuclear test<\/a>.&nbsp; While it&#8217;s not <br \/>likely that mushroom clouds will be blossoming over Asian cities anytime soon, <br \/>this development amounts to another failure of Bush&#8217;s Yippee-Ki-Yay approach to <br \/>foreign policy.&nbsp; Our refusal to directly negotiate with NK leaves us in a <br \/>weakened position.&nbsp; Military intervention is unlikely, given that most of our <br \/>forces are committed in Iraq.&nbsp; And sanctions are unlikely to do anything to an <br \/>economy that is already lying dead on the table.&nbsp; We can only hope that Kim <br \/>Jong-Il is a rational actor and that NK&#8217;s neighbors don&#8217;t overreact and start a <br \/>regional arms race.&nbsp; <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span class=\"272210821-09102006\"><\/span><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span class=\"272210821-09102006\">We also need to <br \/>recognize that as long as nuclear arms are seen as the coin of status and power <br \/>in the international community, the club of nuclear states will only continue to <br \/>grow.&nbsp; <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"Section1\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the media was waving its arms in the air and practicing duck-and-cover maneuvers in the wake of news that North Korea has conducted a successful nuclear test.&nbsp; While it&#8217;s not likely that mushroom clouds will be blossoming over Asian cities anytime soon, this development amounts to another failure of Bush&#8217;s Yippee-Ki-Yay approach to <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1364' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-m0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}