I agree, but NK is a special case.
Their possession of such weapons makes millions of people hostage to an irrational dictator"
At the risk of.....
Israel has had the bomb for some time now - it is religion driven and is ruled by an extremist right-wing regime of the type that has only been kept out of the International law courts by US vetoes (pretty well as Syria is being kept out of the courts by Chinese and Russian vetoes)
It has a history of human rights abuses, including massacres of unarmed civilians
It has shown itself willing to put nuclear weapons in the hands of a fascist state as proved by its attempts to arm the South African Regime
It is permanently under accusation of ethnic cleansing
And to top it all - its Head of State is under investigation for corruption.
As I said - it has the bomb
America has a bomb, has a long history of both security and actual military interference in the affairs of other states - its security forces have a long history of espionage, sabotage and murder.
It has used similar weapons on two sizeable cities, causing death and deformation to generations of children
As unstable as North Korea might be, it couldn't begin to compete with the records of these two beauties
It is the existence of the bomb that is the problem - not who possesses it.
If we continue to support its existence we will be sealing the fate of the future
Jim Carroll