Reply #19: There is an obvious difference between India, France, Israel, democracies, [View All]

[MADem]

and NK....and Pakistan and China, by comparison, though dictatorships, are 'Party-Hearty Live and Enjoy Life' nations by comparison, with vibrant markets and access to technology.

NK keeps their people in a perpetual state of fear, servitude and starvation. A country where owning a VCR is a crime is not equivalent to the other nuke states.

And the idea behind China having nukes was so NK didn't have to. The Chinese are mightily pissed at NK for going against their express directives not to make anything radiological go boom in a mine shaft.

Most of the countries you mention don't especially want to have a nuke free world...at least not yet. They like having the ultimate weapon of deterrence, the "don't screw with ME" card. So they don't feel as though they are being 'hypocritical' at all.

And odds are good, especially with the lousy job of diplomacy our fearless leader has been doing over the past six years, they don't particularly care what we here in the USA think one way or the other.