The Real North Korean Threat
North Korea has, say, enough plutonium for 100 weapons, numbers that enable them to sell nuclear weapons to any cash-and-carry buyer and still have a North Korean nuclear deterrent. We cut off all aid and trade from the US, we even impose a blockade of the North's coasts, and the North keeps building bombs. The Islamic Nutburger Front deposits $1 billion in a Swiss account. The North smuggles a finished bomb out through China, it is shipped to somewhere in Indonesia, where it is loaded on a ship with a short-range nuclear capable missile. (We would NOT know that that had happened.) A few weeks later, Seattle goes up in a nuclear fireball. That's where I see the confrontation policy taking us. Where am I wrong?