US steps to demonstrate resolve in the face of North Korean nuclear threats come with potential dangers.

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When Kazakhstan's Parliament ratified a treaty establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia earlier this month, the effort to ban nuclear weapons from the region took its final step. Throughout the Cold War, Central Asia had been the epicenter of the Soviet nuclear testing program--with the Soviet military conducting 456 nuclear tests in Kazakhstan alone. Appropriately then, the treaty was signed by representatives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in September 2006 at Semipalatinsk, the main Soviet test site in Kazakhstan.

Without a bold strategy and consistent presidential attention, it will only be a matter of time until the world will wake up to North Korean nuclear weapons that can precisely target any American city and cause mass destruction.