Jay Honeck wrote:
Since I'm tired of reading questions about the development of
anti-matter-powered Beechcraft ejection seats, I thought I'd toss this
topic onto the newsgroup's platter: North Korea.

Well, I am physically a lot closer to North Korea than you guys, and I
refuse to worry about it.

North Korea has had the bomb since the early '90s. The sixth Pakistan
test in 1994 was actually on contract for North Korea and was conducted
almost immediately after the US had extracted an agreement (in return
for a huge amount of tribute) that North Korea would stop developing
nuclear weapons.

So, really, all this is about is North Korea demanding more money to
prop up its totalitarian regime, "or we won't play nice any more."
Actually using a nuke or selling one to a terrorist group to use would
immediately result in the whole of North Korea being reduced to slag,
and they know it. Neither the US nor any other country attacked in this
manner would wait for a UN Security Council resolution. The North
Koreans would be gone, and that would be it.

As for their flight training, it is said to be awful and there are a
lot of accidents.

So far, North Korea has a series of rocket tests, with a very high
failure rate, and one atomic test that fizzled. Sounds to me like the
most North Korea's WMD scientists have to fear is their own government.