Non-Alllied Movement

NAM is an odd group. They are alledgedly "non-aligned" but their loudest voices do seem to complain about the same thing, the US. Makes you wonder if they are against globalization as well.

Developing countries yesterday wrapped up a multinational summit with North Korea charging that U.S. threats drove it to acquire deterrent atomic weapons and Iran winning solid support for its nuclear ambitions.
Iran, Venezuela and Cuba joined North Korea in leading efforts to forge an anti-U.S. alliance. Summit leaders, in a statement on Iran, "reaffirmed the basic and inalienable right of all states to develop research, production and use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes."

They warned that any attack or threat against any nuclear facility used for peaceful purposes was a violation of international law.

North Korea took the opportunity to assail the United States for unilateral actions against individual countries and called for a revitalization of the 118-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

"The United States is attempting to deprive other countries of even their legitimate right to peaceful nuclear activities," said North Korea's second-ranking leader, Kim Yong-nam.

It is odd to hear groups that voluntarily joined the UN's NPT who continue to screech about the US attempts to restrain them from developing "peaceful" uses for nuclear energy. North Korea being the oddest of all since they developed nuclear weapons for "peaceful" purposes. It would be interesting to see how many of the NAM countries believed that the development of nuclear weapons was a peaceful endevour.