I'd hate to be working for the US State Department or any foreign ministry of a major country.
There are so many trouble spots in the world that could blow up!
North Korea has the bomb and is lobbing missiles while starving its own people. What can anybody do?
Making an analogy, if someone was holed up in their house randomly shooting a gun into the street while starving their kids, the police would surround the house and try to talk that someone into dropping the gun and letting the kids out. And if that didn't work, at some point they would probably raid the house.
But you can't "raid the house" when that country has nukes and an army of 700,000.
I suppose a strike on nuclear facilities is a possibility. But the fact that that hasn't been done suggests to me that in this case, it is probably too hard for it to be successful.
In 1981, the Israelis hit the Iraq nuclear plant at Osirak.
In 2007, Israeli hit a Syrian nuclear plant.
My impression is that if one is going to go with the military option, it has to be done when the nuclear facility is fairly small and not extensively built out yet.
In the case of North Korea, they already have the bomb and an extensive nuke program.
It looks like the Iranian nuke program is getting bigger and nobody can really stop that one either. It also doesn't help that Russia is actually helping them build the thing.
Thus, the same situation holds with Iran as North Korea, it might be too big to hit militarily from the air and the Iranians have 350,000 in their army so sending in ground forces to take down the plants would be difficult.
So it appears, the world will probably have to live with a nuclear Iran and North Korea. One can only hope that they will back track on their plans or at the very least open their plants to extremely vigorous inspection. Now, how do you get them to do that .... ???
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