Kyodo News: The United States wants Japan to take Iran’s suspected nuclear arms program as seriously as North Korea’s nuclear activities, a senior U.S. administration official said Thursday. “As North Korea is testing the boundary of international norm against developing nuclear weapons and deliberate capability, so is Iran,” said Lincoln Bloomfield, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. Kyodo News
TOKYO The United States wants Japan to take Iran’s suspected nuclear arms program as seriously as North Korea’s nuclear activities, a senior U.S. administration official said Thursday. “As North Korea is testing the boundary of international norm against developing nuclear weapons and deliberate capability, so is Iran,” said Lincoln Bloomfield, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs.
“I think it’s important to point out that the very consequences that Japan would find unacceptable in a nuclear-armed North Korea are the same consequences that Iran’s neighbors from Central Asia to the Caucuses to the Arabian Peninsula would face if Iran’s nuclear ambitions are not similarly ended,” he said.
