US Secretary of State Colin Powell's recent visit to Japan, China and South Korea aims at stabilizing the relations with the three countries for the upcoming presidential election in the US; another mission is to coordinate each other's stand on the North Korean nuclear issue in an aim to resume the talks on the North Korean nuclear issue as early as possible.

In the Middle East, Iran is haggling with the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on uranium enrichment. Why the Iranian nuclear issue is also called troubled waters is because the US and the Western alliance apply a policy of "Big rob plus carrot'' alternatively against Teheran and drive Iran to agree to their terms. In southern Asia they say the Indian nuclear experts have offered uranium enrichment technology to Iran, which is strongly rejected by India. Meanwhile some countries with nuclear capability are taking quiet action to approach nuclear club. The indication is that the nuclear storms come in succession. It is a tendency that could set the cat among the pigeons.

In the global nuclear storms, the most concerned one for US is the North Korean nuclear issue. After the September 11 incident, the US immediately listed North Korea as one of "axis of evil'' countries for backing up terrorist activities. At that time Libya, Iraq, Syria and Iran were in the list of "axis of evil'' countries. The Saddam regime was overthrown in the Iraqi war while some countries changed their nuclear plans. After the Iraqi war, the US recognized the statement by Libya to give up nuclear plan and took away the related data and nuclear materials from Libya. In line of the changes taken place in Iraq, the US has recently decided to eliminate Iraq from the list of "axis of evil'' countries And then the US can concentrate on thumping the nuclear plans of the North Korea and Iran.

Through rounds of argument Six-Party Talks on North Korean Nuclear Program have entered into a substantive stage. The argument and exploration between US and North Korea are getting more intensive. There emerges an issue of South Korean nuclear reactor in the critical time of the talks. For North Korea it is a bargaining counter fallen from the sky. Therewith, Pyongyang says it is not ripe to resume the Six-Party Talks before making clear the South Korean nuclear issue. To be sure there is a factor that North Korea is waiting for the conclusion of the upcoming US presidential election. Even more North Korea is opposed to the double standards. If South Korea can apply nuclear energy to peaceful use, why cannot North Korea? It is obvious that North Korea has strong reasons to say so. Let's see what response the IAEA will make. More than that at the final juncture of US election the US and Japan are ready to hold joint "interception exercise at sea'' targeting North Korea. Not long ago, there passed a secret plan that US and South Korea will attack North Korea. While accusing of foreign conspiracy, North Korea believes that the action will destroy the peace and stability in this region and stresses that the dialogue atmosphere and war exercise cannot co-exist. Thereof if Japan follows the US policy to knock North Korea North Korean storm could not be settled reasonably as early as possible, but will be getting stronger.

For the Iranian nuclear storm, there is a tendency that the storm will get stronger. It is not complex for the Iranian nuclear issue. The US and its Western allies believe that Iran is developing nuclear weapons while Iran stresses it has the right to apply nuclear energy for peaceful use and says it is exploring the technology for uranium enrichment. At the same time, Iran has enough reasons to develop nuclear technology. Iran believes now that Israel, the enemy of the Islamic world, has a large quantity of nuclear weapons and the US and IAEA ignore it and even try to protect it, why do they check Iranian nuclear installations again and again, and prohibit Iran to have uranium enriched. There have been bad relations between US and Iran. After the Iraqi war, Iran and Syria become the biggest obstacle for US to push ahead its Middle East strategy. At the same time, the change made by Libya has greatly fired the United States and its Western allies to strike first to gain their initiative with enthusiasm. So they adopt a strong and soft policy on the Iranian nuclear issue. In another word, under US supervision, the three nations of Britain, France and Germany, major EU countries, serve as persuasive talkers and IAEA officials act as mediators.

It is strange that the Iranian nuclear storm causes complication. Recently US has criticized Indian nuclear experts to provide Iran with nuclear technology, which is rejected by India. In addition to this, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld splashed dirty water on Iran when he paid a recent visit to Iraq, saying Iran offered cash and weapons with the anti-US militants in Iraq. In rejection, Iran lashed out against US saying US has Iranian oil ambition.

Judging from the storms we can see as long as there are hegemonism and power politics the storms in the world will not be reduced, on the contrary, more storms will appear.

By People's Daily Online