And the way out for any faulting nation to avoid the state of being painfully bombed is to go nuclear itself is therefore gaining momentum within some nations.
The result therefore is a renewed nuclear race in the 21st century.
Now there are talks of more sanctions imposed by the UN and the USA as if existing ones were not adequate. Would one blame North Korea single-handedly for any irresponsible future trading of its nuclear technology to get some much-needed money if more sanctions get imposed and implemented? If the world wants to punish millions of already deprived North Koreans for the actions of a desperate dictator, the same actions of the desperate man can cause devastation to millions of others anywhere in the world.
And does this test change the ground reality in any way? The nuclear test is the manifestation that North Korea now can produce Weapons of Mass Destruction (analysts now look at the other dimensions of delivery mechanism and the strength of the device ignoring hard facts that research and proliferation in these areas too are in progress on top of some existing homegrown capabilities of this rogue state). They had the technology, probably, for months, if not years and they now have the required amount of Plutonium to produce at least a few, because one doesn't waste all one's resources in a mere experiment.
So, effectively, nothing much has changed since yesterday other than the changed rhetoric. I don't see much difference between a man having a gun and ammunition, but never firing an empty shot; and another having a gun and firing an empty shot to prove that he indeed possesses a gun.
Many wanted to see the test as the proof that the gun indeed does fire. And when it eventually fired it also carried the more important intention of North Korea that the country under present regime won't hesitate to use it if provoked.
Was there any provocation by any for it to build the bomb in the first place? North Korea claims yes, the super-cop says no. We don't know the truth, however what we know is going nuclear is not the solution.
Well, bottom-line is there was a blast and the blast resulted in some seismological sensing. The analysis of the seismological finding conveys to the average global citizen the presence of a barking dog and a paper tiger as North Korea goes nuclear. Period.
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