AT a town-hall meeting in the University of New Hampshire field house, Barack Obama says people can ask any question they like and promises to answer “without equivocation.” There’s applause, and hands go up all around the gymnasium packed with a couple of thousand people on a freezing Monday night eleven months away from the primary.
A student asks what to do about North Korea’s nuclear program, which is in the news because there’s talk of a deal between the U.S. and North Korea. Obama notes the danger of nuclear proliferation, talks about flaws in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, touts his work with Republican senator Dick Lugar to secure nuclear material, says the world needs a regime where responsible nuclear powers keep custody of all nuclear material, and concludes that the U.S. needs to look at reducing its own nuclear stockpile. Next question?
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