Stop Kim now before nuclear war breaks out Grammars aren’t the answer
Last week you reported on how North Korea had unveiled a new array of ‘game-changing’ missiles and had threatened to annihilate the US armada in the region. So what can be done to bring security to the area?
President Trump was criticised, before the US election, for suggesting that he would encourage Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear weapons. But unless some steps are taken to curtail the North Korean regime, those other nations might well conclude that they have no choice but to start building them, in which case the potential for all-out conflict increases substantially.
I’m afraid that closing our eyes and hoping the problem will go away is not a credible course of action, however popular it might be. Peter Davey, Moordown, Bournemouth Just what is Washington up to, with all the sabre-rattling against North Korea? Maybe they should remember that both the US, France and Great Britain tested and stored nuclear weapons in the 1950s. Yet when North Korea tests a rocket or two, the US government acts like hysterical Peter Hitchens supports setting up more grammar schools but the best education system in the world is in South Korea, while in Europe, Finland is rated higher than us. Both have comprehensive education systems.
Our current system is good but hindered by diversity, such as private schools. We do not want communism but all areas of health children, shouting and screaming that they are a ‘rogue state’, and that ‘appropriate action must be taken’. America should stop trying to be the world’s policeman. Edward Mitchell, Bridgwater, Somerset Last week you reported that North Korea has contingency plans to kidnap Western tourists in South Korea to use as hostages should the US launch an attack. This has now put North Korea in the same category as Islamic State. Kim Jong Un needs to be stopped. J. Moffatt, Stockport Your piece last week by Michael Burleigh said that Britain was in a and education should be available on an equal-opportunity basis.
Mervyn Williams, Huddersfield The claim that the selection process produces failure is far from the truth as I know it. I also know that non-selection at comprehensive schools was not beneficial to both my children.
Reg Martin, Solihull very lonely world, as it is not a main player in the current international military crises. Great. We should be more like Switzerland and Sweden, minding our own business.
H. Bullen, Westbourne, Dorset Kim Jong Un and President Assad are less concerned about the state of their countries than creating mayhem in a wider sphere and keeping Russia and the USA at odds with each other.
William Robertson, London Isn’t it odd that countries with the ultimate weapon decide that no one else will be allowed them? Derek Harris, Fareham, Hampshire