André Glucksmann on the new Cold War over North Korea

André Glucksmann sees the Cold War revived in the current Korea conflict. North Korea is holding the world hostage, writes the philosopher in the liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera: "Even if we have declared the Cold War over, the spread of weapons of mass destruction is fanning fears. ... Pyongyang boasts about its weapons arsenal, which represents more than a threat for its neighbours - Seoul within easy range and Tokyo within the range of its missiles. This makes the regime feel entitled to blackmail and threaten its opponents. ... Nuclear armament and totalitarianism go hand in hand nowadays. Far more than being a pre-historic monster, North Korea embodies a future which threatens to get out of control. ... But a 'small' nuclear power like communist North Korea by no means acts alone. It is a lackey manipulated by more than one master. ... The so 'wise' and productive China is using the North Korean agitator to threaten the rest of the world in an indirect way and then cast itself as the country that is indispensable to re-establishing peace and order. ... The fusion of nuclear weapons and totalitarianism poses just as much of a threat today as it did yesterday to the naked survival of mankind."

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