A Sucker's Deal

Even though the US is the largest nuclear power, both military and peaceful, it still wants North Korea to scrape it entire nuclear program. I can support the military part, not because I do not see the hypocrisy in it, but less nuclear bomb is a good thing regardless. Still, it is difficult to find the US argument convincing when they are keep the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world. The more troubling part is their demand to scrape the light-water reactor for power plants. North Korea has no native energy source. They need power to move forward economically. If they give up on nuclear power, they would have no way to move out of the Stone Age. The US wants the North Koreas to give up the possibilities to stand on their own and become dependents on US aids. Even if North Korea had no megalomaniac at the leadership position, they would not, in their right minds, and rightly so, do such a thing. One wonders why the Bush government wants it this way and if they really want a peaceful deal at all.