World's Biggest Threat?

Recently, I wrote this post amidst the controversy over North Korea's nuclear test. I argued that "...without writing off the possibility of a nuclear threat form North Korea, we have to be ready for any eventuality of such WMD to fall into the wrong hands. The nuclear threat is apparent but it is relatively lesser than the threat posed by a possible pre-emptive strike by the mighty US forces."

For me, as I have clearly written above, a nuclear threat from North Korea is an eventuality that everyone must aware of. Any deviation of nuclear technology from peaceful purposes into such WMD technology should be opposed at all cost. Moreover, putting harsh sanctions to North Korea for its nuclear ambition as has immediately been proposed relentlessly by the US after the nuclear test will, in my opinion, only make North Korea more determine to pursue the technology for security reasons.

Now try to digest this:

According to a poll conducted on some 1,000 people in Sweden recently, the United States is a greater threat to world peace than North Korea, according to Swedes surveyed in a poll aired on Sunday. Some 29 per cent of those surveyed said the US posed the biggest danger to peace, compared to 28 per cent who considered North Korea the top menace, according to the Temo poll broadcast on Sunday by Swedish television station Axess.

Iran placed third with 18 per cent, followed by Israel (six per cent), China (four per cent) and Russia (three per cent).

The result of this poll seemed to validate my perception that it is the US, with its concept of pre-emptive strike, that poses the worst threat to the world's peace than the North Korea's nuclear test or the Iranian ambition to pursue peaceful nuclear technology.