The U.S. has nuclear capabilities why shouldn't North Korea?

Answer 1

The relevant question is, will the world be a safer or more dangerous place if N.Korea acquires nukes? That answer does not depend on whether the U.S. has nuclear capability.

Answer 2

North Korea has at its helm a communist dictatorship led by Kim Jong ill, which claims it is the sovereign ruler of the whole Korean Peninsula. Lest you be reminded, the Korean War of 1950-1953 never officially ended (only a ceasefire separates the two Koreas from renewed all out war), and NoKor does not really recognize the government of South Korea as a sovereign one. As it stands North Korea does not have a prayer of defeating South Korea even with limited American support with conventional warfare, so there is little doubt that NoKor will want any edge to win what it may claim as a war of unification (read: weapons of mass destruction).

And finally, North Korea as an economy and as a nation is ridiculously poor, and thus Kim Jong Ill may see these nuclear weapons as economic goods to sell to any interested parties. With Osama and Fiends and other shadowy organizations this can mean a new ready-made weapon in their Jihad or whatever war they intend to fight.

So the real reason why nuclear weapons (as opposed to nuclear energy technology) cannot be allowed to North Korea is the threat of them using the weapons is too high to be tolerated, and they could become a Wal-Mart of nuclear weapons for dangerous organizations... if you understand the analogy.

At least the United States does not threaten nations anymore with nuclear attack (unless that nation too has nukes of its own and clear intentions of using them, like the old Soviet Union) or goes around selling complete weapons to other organizations.

Answer 3

We've had nuclear weapons since 1945 and used them twice to end the deadliest war in my lifetime.

My math tells me that's 61 years since the last time we've used them and that isn't a bad track record. I believe the use we made of them in 1945 has been well justified.

I believe if Kim Jung Il has nuclear weapons he might very well be tempted to use them against one of several of his neighbors, and would do so far more quickly than we would. I am also concerned that he might be less responsible in who he might consider giving a warhead or two to than we would be.

Currently the nuclear club includes the U.S., Britain, Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, probably Israel, and most likely Ukraine.

I trust most of these to not use them irresponsibly, but there are a couple that I would just as soon not had them.

I do think the nuclear club is large enough and we don't need what is an essentially terrorist state possessing some more of these rather terrible weapons.

Answer 4

I hear this argument all the time and its the scariest thing I've heard in years.

Why in the world would you want any other countries to gain nuclear weapons? Especially the nations that are ruled by evil dictators with no concern for the lives of their own countrymen? This is insanity!

According to your thought why shouldn't everyone in the world have nuclear weapons? Give them to the Serbs, the Syrians, the Argentinians? Why not Thailand? Then when every country has them we can all die together the first time a military general decides to take over an impoverished country and act on his fatalistic desires?

Do you not know that there is evil and instability in this world? Have you never read a history book?

Answer 5

North Korea is China's problem. But you are right, the cat's out of the bag. Only a miracle international effort can stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Pakistan and India could render this all moot.

Answer 6

We do in a passive manner and we don't bark out the the world that we have nukes. While North Korea is in the form of aggressive manner, in which they're an authoriatarianist country, a dictatorship. The U.S is a Democracy country, we signed treaty with other nations saying we won't use it, but for defense. did NOrth Korea do that? nope, they didn't sign or make any promises :)

Answer 7

North Korea isn't worthy of nuclear weapons. The US uses nukes as a deterrent. North Korea uses them as bargaining chips.

Answer 8

US is a responsible user of nuclear weapons unlike North Korea whose program was erroneous. North Korea's first missile did not even hit its target.

Answer 9

Because once North Korea has nuclear weapons they are going to escalate a war in the region and try to occupy local neighbors who cant defend them selves and some major powers like china and Russia aren't going to do anything about it , and we will have an east camp and a west one all over Again and this time its going to be messy .

Answer 10

because we're cooler than north korea. that and, we wouldn't blackmail the world with them. we use the army for that :) j/k

kim jong ill is a tyrant. imagine a world where north korea does have nuclear weapons. i'd hate to live in south korea. i don't think they'd be stupid enough to use them, but you never know.....