Those nuclear weapons talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
"If the nuclear weapons talks move forward, then good, but if it's the only area of progress, that can't be good for Japan.
Conservative South Koreans are also complaining that the United States is surrendering a bargaining chip that would have been useful in nuclear weapons talks with North Korea, even though Pentagon planners say South Korea's security would not be affected.
"It is stunning that this crisis is between two nuclear weapons states and we can't forget the escalation could go to that level," said Ambassador Robert Gallucci, U.S. chief negotiator for 1994 nuclear weapons talks with North Korea.
"This is consistent with what has been said for quite some time about Syrian-North Korean cooperation on chemical weapons," Ambassador Robert Gallucci, U.S. chief negotiator for 1994 nuclear weapons talks with North Korea, told VICE News.
"But there are a lot of lessons from the Cuba crisis that we should pay attention to, such as overreaction, overreliance on nuclear weapons, talking about them as if they're something anybody can use, and a clear sense that, unless adults are truly in charge of the relationship, it can get worse without control".
He should cease the nuclear weapons talk, at least until he can discuss deterrence strategy with his Secretary of Defense and consider whether we still need a triad.
Reprints Related topics Iran Political policy International relations Nuclear weapons Nuclear proliferationThe talks will resume in three weeks' time and will try to make progress on what the Iranian delegation sees as the first stage of a process that it hopes can be concluded within six to 12 months.
In a statement sent to Reuters, the Chinese foreign ministry called on all parties to make even greater efforts to resolve the tension over North Korea's nuclear weapons through talks.
With Israel speaking increasingly loudly of resorting to military action to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, the talks could provide some respite in a crisis that has driven up oil prices and threatened to suck the United States into its third major war in a decade.
