WASHINGTON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has called on all sides in the North Korean nuclear crisis to act responsibly “to prevent any escalation of tensions” after a days-long war of words between Washington and Pyongyang.
In a statement Saturday, Macron said the situation “undermines the preservation of international peace” and the North Korean regime “poses a serious threat to the security of its neighbors.”
Calling it “the responsibility of all,” Macron called on the international community to “act in a concerted, firm and effective manner, as it has just done in the (U.N.) Security Council, to bring North Korea back to the path of dialogue.”
France is a member of the Security Council, which approved fresh sanctions on North Korea this month for its recent intercontinental ballistic missile testing.
Macron: 32 years younger than Trump, light years ahead of him in leadership (and maturity)
and the ability to express himself coherently.
I’m dreading his press conference scheduled for Monday. Not looking forward to whatever other three word phrases he’s come up with.
Certainly looks like he’s planning to be his own Communications Director at this point. Never thought I’d look back fondly at the short, ill-fated Mooch days. He was only bombastic without access to actual bombs.
As we see in this article, Macron may be more level-headed than Trump, but pursues the same goal: to preserve the imbalance of power between nuclear and non-nuclear states, which basically means that nuclear states can mess with non-nuclear ones with relative impunity. The nuclear states have never been willing to honor the commitments they made in the non-proliferation treaty: that they would eventually disarm. And after seeing what happened to Iraq and Libya, it’s understandable and rational - which in no way makes it morally right - that a country named as part of the axis of evil by the U.S. would feel that without nucs it might get regime-changed whenever convenient for us. Therefore what the U.S. has to offer, to provide a fair incentive for nuclear disarmament to N Korea, is to offer a real peace treaty ending the Korean War (to replace the current 60+ year old armistice), and to make binding non-aggression pledges, in effect promising that we will not engage in regime change.