"Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to pre-emptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest," an unnamed foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official North Korean KCNA news agency.
But in endorsing the treaty, President Clinton pointed out that it contained a "supreme national interest" clause that would allow the nation to resume testing if at some point the safety and reliability of the nuclear stockpile could no longer be certified.
The two communities will have to be separated by an Arab/international force, preferably with Turkish participation that will be necessary, because it will be a supreme Turkish interest to prevent an Alawite mass exodus to Turkey, where there are already over half a million Alawites.
"Slowly at first, and with great care, Chapman began to build up a stock of secrets that would be of supreme interest to British intelligence," Mr. Macintyre writes.
But his supreme interest is clearly and purely music.
Here as in other places, there is supreme interest in protecting children.
What all this means for technology stocks is, naturally, of supreme interest to investors.
Not being allowed to criticize the emir is one such provision, but there are others, including a prohibition on printing anything that "may instigate the overthrow of the regime in the country, cause harm thereto or damage the supreme interest of the state," or "any propaganda urging to embrace destructive principles," or any news about the military without permission.
Last year, North Korea became the first country to claim to have quit the NPT (legal minds differ over whether the claim stands, since the correct exit procedures were not followed).But the "extraordinary event" that caused it to want to invoke its supreme interest and leave, as the treaty allows, was nothing more high-minded than a fit of pique at being caught cheating for a second time.
"Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to preemptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest".
