The North Korean military leader went on TV to tell South Korea that he had used the 31 kilos of plutonium on hand to nuclearize five missiles and that he would attack South Korea unless the South released food and other aid to the North.
Just
in case you are one of the too-smart-by-a-half strategic thinkers who believe it is OK for Iran to have nuclear weapons, this is what a crazed
government can and will do.
We don't know what the democratic conservative government in South Korea is going to do with this direct threat to its existence but democracies are particularly vulnerable. A democratic public doesn't usually want to be wiped out. Keep your eyes on this one to see what happens.
We also learn three things from this press report:
Second, "Kim Jong-il appears to have given up handling many day-to-day tasks after suffering a stroke." Shouldn't that have been headline news in the U.S.?
Third, what I already knew....6 kilos of plutonium (the size of a lemon) can make a nuclear weapon that can destroy Chicago's downtown. Chicago would end up looking like Detroit.