Not that the US has not recklessly ignored South
Korea's concern in pressuring Seoul on the matter.
The PSI is the international naval component of a far
larger US-dominated effort to expanded Western
military domination worldwide through NATO.
An article called "U.S. Wants Korea to Forge Military
Ties With NATO," observed:
"[A South Korean official] said Washington aims to
prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
by North Korea by taking advantage of NATO in addition
to the PSI...."
(Chosun Ilbo, November 23, 2006)
In a news dispatch titled "Incoming administration may
consider joining U.S. missile defense program," a
South Korean newspaper reported that:
"South Korea has been reluctant to join the PSI in the
past for fear of inciting the North, though it was
recently reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Trade proposed to the transition team that the
matter be given serious consideration."
(Hankyoreh, January 21, 2008)
The PSI has also been exploited to shore up other
components of Asian NATO, including Australia and New
Zealand.
In April of 2006 the US, Australia, Britain, Japan,
New Zealand and Singapore held a three-day
"international anti-terror exercise" in northern
Australia.
In July of last year a similar exercise was held in
New Zealand, which once prided itself on its alleged
neutrality, that was reported on by a local newspaper:
"In what will be seen as another step in breaking down
the 20-year freeze by the Americans on joint
participation in routine military exercises, its
military will be strongly represented in a contingent
of more than 30 coming to Auckland for Exercise Maru.
"The exercise...is being organised as part of New
Zealand's commitment to the Proliferation Security
Initiative."
(The Dominion Post, July 22, 2008)
In the interim between the Australian and New Zealand
PSI military exercises a 41-nation drill, Pacific
Shield 07, was conducted off Japan:
"Ships and planes from Australia, Britain, France,
Japan, New Zealand, and the United States were
deployed on day one of the three-day drill in the Sea
of Sagami off Tokyo Bay...under the
Proliferation Security Initiative put forward by US
President George W. Bush in 2003."
As an element of India's incorporation into both Asian
and Global NATO, it too has been targeted for
inclusion in the PSI.
An Indian commentary from 2007 remarks:
"In recent years, New Delhi seems to be bending over
backwards to accommodate the "strategic interests" of
Washington. Joint military exercises involving the
armies of the two countries have intensified in scope
and magnitude since they began in the mid-1990s.
"Washington's desire to encircle China with a pro-US
alliance is well known. The Japanese leadership has
been calling on New Delhi to join in
Washington-inspired projects such as the Proliferation
Security Initiative."
(Frontline, July 14-27, 2007)
And in the same year Siddharth Varadarajan wrote:
Korea's concern in pressuring Seoul on the matter.
The PSI is the international naval component of a far
larger US-dominated effort to expanded Western
military domination worldwide through NATO.
An article called "U.S. Wants Korea to Forge Military
Ties With NATO," observed:
"[A South Korean official] said Washington aims to
prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
by North Korea by taking advantage of NATO in addition
to the PSI...."
(Chosun Ilbo, November 23, 2006)
consider joining U.S. missile defense program," a
South Korean newspaper reported that:
"South Korea has been reluctant to join the PSI in the
past for fear of inciting the North, though it was
recently reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Trade proposed to the transition team that the
matter be given serious consideration."
(Hankyoreh, January 21, 2008)
The PSI has also been exploited to shore up other
components of Asian NATO, including Australia and New
Zealand.
In April of 2006 the US, Australia, Britain, Japan,
New Zealand and Singapore held a three-day
"international anti-terror exercise" in northern
Australia.
In July of last year a similar exercise was held in
New Zealand, which once prided itself on its alleged
neutrality, that was reported on by a local newspaper:
"In what will be seen as another step in breaking down
the 20-year freeze by the Americans on joint
participation in routine military exercises, its
military will be strongly represented in a contingent
of more than 30 coming to Auckland for Exercise Maru.
"The exercise...is being organised as part of New
Zealand's commitment to the Proliferation Security
Initiative."
(The Dominion Post, July 22, 2008)
In the interim between the Australian and New Zealand
PSI military exercises a 41-nation drill, Pacific
Shield 07, was conducted off Japan:
"Ships and planes from Australia, Britain, France,
Japan, New Zealand, and the United States were
deployed on day one of the three-day drill in the Sea
of Sagami off Tokyo Bay...under the
Proliferation Security Initiative put forward by US
President George W. Bush in 2003."
As an element of India's incorporation into both Asian
and Global NATO, it too has been targeted for
inclusion in the PSI.
An Indian commentary from 2007 remarks:
"In recent years, New Delhi seems to be bending over
backwards to accommodate the "strategic interests" of
Washington. Joint military exercises involving the
armies of the two countries have intensified in scope
and magnitude since they began in the mid-1990s.
"Washington's desire to encircle China with a pro-US
alliance is well known. The Japanese leadership has
been calling on New Delhi to join in
Washington-inspired projects such as the Proliferation
Security Initiative."
(Frontline, July 14-27, 2007)
And in the same year Siddharth Varadarajan wrote:
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