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[kandrathe]

Maybe I missed this but can anybody tell me why in earths name Kim would like to attack somebody with a nuke? And about the other often heard story, why would he want to sell a nuke to somebody? He would be better of putting his money on a bank account if he wanted some profit.

eppie, do you play chess? If you do, of understand how the masters play it, then you might begin the grasp the complexity. The US used nukes, why wouldn't DNK? Maybe against the hated Japanese, maybe against the mass of Chinese troops ready to occupy the peninsula, maybe against the USA as further extortion. They would use them (as a threat or actual use) to preserve their control on power as a means of trying to force the world to deal with them. So far it's worked, the threat of violence (which we call extortion) has kept the bankrupt regime bathed in food and fuel oil aid.

So why would they trade nuclear materials and technology to rich Islamofacists? To prevent the collapse of their regime when their population enters a civil war due to freezing and starving to death.