N. Korea and the Nonproliferation treaty

[acroyear]

I'm just wondering why nobody in the media seems to be mentioning this. There's all this concern about N. Korea potentially having nukes by the end of the year and what that might mean for us and for their neighbors, but nobody really understands the significance of the non-proliferation treaty. That treaty doesn't state "we won't make nukes", it states "we won't give or sell nukes to countries that don't already have them".

So by dropping out of that treaty, N. Korea has actually said something that the press isn't picking up on: they plan to sell what they build. The probable reality is that they already have a buyer, and some advance cash has been paid in order to complete the development (N. Korea is flat broke and has been for decades).

So the real question is not what N. Korea plans to do with it, but who is the outside buyer that wants the bomb, has plenty of cash, and likely already has plans for it when they get it...

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Sometimes I hate it when you're that logical. *sigh*