As the six party talks resume in Beijing, the international community has focused their attention to examining the credibility of the global mechanism for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
CRI Reporter Chen Xi has more.
 Dr. Fan Jidu, a deputy researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says external threats from other countries is one of the reasons that have spurred North Korea to develop their own nuclear weapons and the country's security concern is not excrescent.
"When nations are faced with serious threats from outside, they will doubtless seek to protect themselves with the strongest weapons available today."
Fan Jidu says some countries' "double standards" are fuelling international concerns over nuclear proliferation. For example, US President George Bush recently has agreed to sign a civil cooperation deal allowing New Delhi to buy foreign nuclear technology for the first time in 30 years.
These double standards inevitably diminish the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty's credibility with countries that haven't yet acquired nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, many countries have showed little faith in the future of this mechanism, as a number of treaties of non-proliferation has been abandoned and some crucial powers have stepped out.
Fan Jidu suggests the most effective measure to ensure safety would be to enforce the current non-proliferation treaty.
"If countries really hope to maintain peace and demolish the threats from nuclear proliferation, they should re-examine their commitments with a common settlement. Countries all over the world should work together to utilize nuclear power peacefully, exercising their nuclear rights and obligations for their mutual benefit."
Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, has also declared his concern over nuclear proliferation.
"All sides needed to achieve disarmament and non-proliferation. Yet each side waits for the other to move first. The result is that mutually assured destruction has been replaced by mutually assured paralysis."
Fan Jidu concludes that no any individual country can accomplish the task of non-proliferation.
Only if the whole international community joins hands and deepens cooperation, can the threat of weapons of mass destruction shaked off and the future of world peace ensured.
Chen Xi, CRI News.
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