Dear Mr. Kofi A. Annan,
Mr. Trent Lott,
Mr. Denny Hastert,
There are more dangerous issues than before in
which explosion of nukes' test would handle some uncountable crisis
in the world.
Tokyo ---
A new political appointee at Japan's Defense Ministry appeared yesterday
to stir up a hornet nest by suggest parliament should debate whether
to abandon the nation's decades-old ban on nuclear weapons.
"Parliament needs to discuss whether perhaps it
is better for Japan to arm itself with nuclear weapons," Shingo
Nishimura, one of two parliamentary vice ministers appointed earlier
this month to back up the defense minister, said in an interview
published in the Japanese weekly Playboy, which has no editorial
connection to the U.S. version.
South Korean missile explodes before hitting designated
target
SEOUL ---
A South Korean ground-to-air missile prematurely exploded before
hitting a pre-designated target during a firing demonstration but
there were no casualties, the Defense Ministry said yesterday.
The accident, the second of its kind in less than a year, occurred
during a firing demonstration at Daechon on the nation's west coast
Tuesday afternoon, said ministry officials.
Fragments from the exploded Nike Hercules missile broke several
windows in a village nearby, they said.
The demonstration was part of programs to celebrate the 50th anniversary
of the founding of South Korea's Armed Forces on October 1, the
officials said.
One ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
the missile appeared to have exploded automatically after its built-in
sensors detected malfunctions in its system.
A similar Nike Hercules missile automatically exploded in mid-air
after being misfired from an army unit in Inchon, west of Seoul,
in December last year. That accident injured six people and damaged
dozens of houses and more than 110 vehicles.
The American-made Nike Hercules missiles are some of the oldest
in the arsenal of the South Korean military. The Seoul government
plans to replace them with new modern missiles.
North Korea has significant nuclear ability, U.S.
reports
WASHINGTON ---
North Korea would be able to produce a "significant number"
of nuclear weapons each year if it renounced a nuclear freeze it
agreed to in 1994, according to an official report.
The report, prepared by former Defense Secretary William Perry,
also said that that in the event of an outbreak of war on the Korean
Peninsula, the intensity of the combat "would be unparalleled
in U.S. experience" since the Korea War.
Perry's report was released one year after he assumed his duties
a special adviser to President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright on North Korea.
Some key recommendations by Perry were implemented last month in
advance of the report's release.
After North Korea pledged to forgo testing of long-range missiles,
Clinton eased trade, banking and travel restrictions against that
country, the most significant gestures toward Pyonyang in almost
half a century.
The report said a North Korean move to restart its
nuclear program at Yongbyon, frozen since 1994, would be its "quickest
and surest path" to acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Without the 1994 Agreed Framework, as the bilateral agreement is
known, "it is estimated that the North could reprocess
enough plutonium to produce a significant number of nuclear weapons
per year," the study said.
It said the limitations of the agreement, such as the fact that
it does not verifiably freeze all nuclear-weapons related activities
and does not cover ballistic missiles, are best addressed by supplementing
rather than replacing the agreement.
As for the specter of a new Korean War, the report said "it
is likely that hundreds of thousands of persons --- U.S., South
Korean, North Korean --- military and civilian --- would perish
and millions of refugees would be created."
"While the U.S. and South Korea of course have
no intention of provoking war, there are those in North Korea who
believe the opposite is true," the report said.
For about bacteria theory, many kinds
of bacteria flora, existed in our body after birth. In average time
of living condition, it keeps in balance of count number.
Nevertheless, a few of powerful bacteria grew up too fast to control
up others bacteria tolerant balance that the competition of survival
press would become to be a serious genocide.
In our views, how to control the population is the most issues
of world. Poor countries and less developed area reveal high tendency
of birth rate. If high population added nuke's weapons
that would threat to peaceful condition.
Under theory of defense mechanism, human always loss
of control over food shortage. The crisis would explode
by the way of poor and high population's area. Clearly,
the most dangerous factor is inducing into nuke's poor countries.
The first predicament is the uneven distribution of numbers of
people in different regions of the world, seriously impeding the
fulfillment of the basic demands of human beings. The population
of Asia, Africa and Latin America accounts for 85 percent of the
world population of 6 billion. In addition, these three continents
have the highest fertility rate and the shortest current life expectancy,
and are relatively poorer and less developed. There
are approximately 1.3 billion people living below the poverty line,
and 900 million going hungry, most of whom dwell on these three
continents.
The second predicament is the extreme disparity between the rich
and the poor regions. It will be the cause of fierce confrontation
if is not dealt with in time. During the three decades from 1960
to 1993, the poverty gap widened from US$5,700 to US$15,000, which
is almost three times as much. It is reported that the average yearly
personal income of the poorest country in 2020 will be only US$325,
while the figure in the industrialized countries will be US$40,000.
During the past three decades, the proportion of the income of the
poorest 20% of the world population dropped from 2.3% to 1.4%, while
that of the richest 20% rose from 70% to 85%. This disparity is
not only unfair but also inhumane.
Jiang says population is his main problem
LONDON, Oct. 18 ---
PRC President Jiang Zemin vowed on Monday to focus on economic development
and open mainland China wider to the outside world, but said his
biggest problem was the country's large population.
Jiang was answering written and verbal questions from the London
Times newspaper ahead of his visit to Britain this week --- the
first by a mainland Chinese head of state.
He spoke of more positive relations with the United States since
they hit a low over NATO's bombing of Beijing's embassy in Belgrade
and said Beijing would enter talks with the Dalai Lama, subject
to his acceptance of conditions including Tibet being a permanent
part of mainland China.
Jiang said Beijing would ultimately resolve the question of Taiwan
by adhering to the policy of peaceful reunification and one country,
two systems" used to secure the return of Hong Kong and Macau.
"We do not undertake to renounce the use of force,
but this is by no means directed at our compatriots in Taiwan. It
is directed at those foreign forces trying to interfere in China's
reunification," he said.
He signalled that he saw the economic development of communist
China in a very long-term way.
"In the past 50 years, since the founding of the People's
Republic of China, we have made a lot of achievements," he
said.
"But when you divide these achievements by our
1.25 billion population, the figure becomes really small ... The
biggest problem I'm facing at the moment is the large population
of China."
Jiang stressed the importance of mainland China's transition from
a planned to market economy. "China will follow
the rules of a market economy," he said.
He said key objectives for mainland China by the middle of the next
century were to "achieve modernization by and large"
and to become a strong, prosperous, democratic and culturally advanced
socialist country."
"We will continue to focus on economic development, deepen
reform, open the country wider to the outside world and develop
a socialist market economy ...," he said.
Jiang said the NATO attack on Beijing's embassy in Belgrade during
the Kosovo war had caused "grave damage" to relations
between Beijing and Washington but he had a "positive and constructive"
meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton last month that was very
important in improving ties.
He said Beijing had done much to modernize Tibet, saying: "We
put in two billion yuan (US$241.6 million) every year."
He believed many young people in Tibet were more interested in
such development than old causes.
Jiang said Beijing would enter talks with the Dalai
Lama on two conditions --- his acceptance of Tibet as a permanent
part of China and that Taiwan was also part of the country.
At the last words, that giving deliberately concern about the population
and nuclear weapon's problems could hold the way of world's stability.