Funny! Funny!! Funny!!! ... Read the following Articles of the Treaty. (http://www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/1968/680701-npt.html)
***Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 729 U.N.T.S. 161 entered into force March 5, 1970
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**Article X
1. Each Party shall in exercising its national sovereignty have the right to withdraw from the Treaty if it decides that extraordinary events, related to the subject matter of this Treaty, have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country. It shall give notice of such withdrawal to all other Parties to the Treaty and to the United Nations Security Council three months in advance. Such notice shall include a statement of the extraordinary events it regards as having jeopardized its supreme interests.
2. Twenty-five years after the entry into force of the Treaty, a conference shall be convened to decide whether the Treaty shall continue in force indefinitely, or shall be extended for an additional fixed period or periods. This decision shall be taken by a majority of the Parties to the Treaty.
Now can anyone anwser me the following:
Q1. After 32 year of the Treaty signed in 1970 and no further conference of the Treaty Members being ever convened again in accordance with Article X(2), is the Tready still valid???
Q2. According to Article X(1), every member nation has the right to withdraw from the Treaty, so what's wrong with Nth Korea doing so???
**Article VI
Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.
Q3. If this Article VI is valid, why the US only want to disarm Iraq instead of nuclear disarming itself first ???
