Major newspaper editorial boards react fast to North Korea’s satellite launch
DOI: 10.1063/PT.4.0134
Less than a day after North Korea launched a satellite on a missile reportedly able to reach California, three national newspapers have commented in editorials.
Online, the Washington Post used the headline ‘Stand firm against North Korea
The New York Times‘s editorial ‘North Korea’s latest provocation
There never have been easy answers on North Korea, which uses provocative behavior to try to extort better deals from the United States and its partners. The international community should enforce existing sanctions and tighten them, and keep the door open for dialogue. China clearly can influence the Kim regime to stop its provocative actions, including any new nuclear tests and missile sales to Iran. But history suggests that China’s fear of North Korean instability will once again trump concerns about the North’s nuclear ambitions.
The Wall Street Journal‘s editors express alarm under the headline ‘Downrange from North Korea: The nuclear threat to Japan and the U.S. will soon be real
The North Korean nuclear threat to U.S. security is no longer theoretical, even if it will still take time for Pyongyang to build a warhead small enough to fit on its new missile. The only way to prevent a Korean nuclear threat to American territory is by working toward regime change, not another short-lived deal with the North.
Steven T. Corneliussen, a media analyst for the American Institute of Physics, monitors three national newspapers, the weeklies Nature and Science, and occasionally other publications. He has published op-eds in the Washington Post and other newspapers, has written for NASA’s history program, and is a science writer at a particle-accelerator laboratory.