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March 18, 2013

Forget About Iran, It's North Korea

William Pesek, New York Post

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Viewed from Seoul or Tokyo, the US’s obsession with Iran looks unbalanced.

No serious observer thinks a nuclear Iran is good for world peace, not with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s abhorrent anti-Semitism and threats to obliterate Israel. Yet the single-minded focus on Iran ignores a more immediate and provocative atomic threat: North Korea. It’s an oversight that President Obama must rectify.

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