As the South Korean President Park Geun-hye visited Iran (May 1-3), a welcome peace statement was made by Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani- “Our demand is world free of weapons of mass destruction especially freeing the Korean Peninsula and the Middle East from destructive weapons.”
It is important to note that a previous UN Security Council Resolution is already existing, which calls for disarmament of the Korean Peninsula. North Korea has been under a belligerent dictatorial regime and the recent under water test-fire of strategic submarine ballistic missile in April 2016, authorized by Kim Jong Un, the President of North Korea has alarmed the world as the region again gets heated up with possibilities of aggression.
North Korea has been aggressively pursuing missile tests as the following list indicates:
- 1993 North Korean missile test – (May 29/30, 1993) – Nodong
- 2006 North Korean missile test – (July 5, 2006) – Taepodong-2 failed
- 2009 North Korean missile test (July 4, 2009)
- Successful launch of the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 satellite (December 12, 2012)
- 2013 North Korean missile tests (May 18-20, 2013 – part of 2013 Korean crisis)
- 2014 North Korean missile tests (March 2014) including Nodong, success[5]
- North Korea claims to launch a missile from a submarine (May 2015)
- Successful launch of the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 satellite (Feb. 7, 2016)
- Test of engine designed for an intercontinental ballistic missile (April, 2016)[6] (Source Wikipedia)
The world is more in need of peace whistles than war missiles!