{"id":46514,"date":"2017-09-05T12:57:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46514"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:12","slug":"burton-canada-must-join-allies-to-solve-north-korean-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/09\/burton-canada-must-join-allies-to-solve-north-korean-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON: Canada must join allies to solve North Korean crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2017\/09\/03\/canada-must-join-allies-to-solve-north-korean-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">written\u00a0a piece recently published in the Toronto Star<\/a> about the need for the international community to launch a co-ordinated response to North Korea&#8217;s disregard of international law.<\/p>\n<p>Burton writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;North Korean state media said this week\u2019s missile launch over Japan was just practice for an attack on Guam, ratcheting up a lunatic\u2019s taunting of the global village with manic brinkmanship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kim Jong Un\u2019s game of \u201cKorean roulette\u201d makes responses like trade sanctions or joint naval exercises seem like kindergarten fare. As the world sputters in fury, North Korea \u2014 supported by China \u2014 keeps perfecting a nuclear capacity that exists to threaten peace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The time for boilerplate statements by Canada \u2014 expressing regret, urging restraint on all sides \u2014 has passed. The next border a Korean missile crosses is likely ours. North Korea\u2019s relentless flouting of international law demands a more serious, co-ordinated response by the international community, including Canada. Increasingly, the only resolution is to reunify the Korean peninsula through UN action, and use South Korea\u2019s considerable resources to reconstruct the North.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2017\/09\/03\/canada-must-join-allies-to-solve-north-korean-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock, has written a piece recently published in the Toronto Star about the need for the international community to launch a co-ordinated response to North Korea&#8217;s disregard of international law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[4008,5747,3892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95272,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46514\/revisions\/95272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}