How silly. What are they gonna do? Shoot nukes at the US - not likely with no missile technology. They'll aim at Japan if anybody.
This is easy. If they start proliferating, the US will simply pull out of the treaty and start doing the same - if we even need to. We ran the USSR broke playing this game, and NK is already poor and starving.
Petty dictators - when will they learn to just go along with the puppetmasters. It's so much easier on them. Look at Castro. If he'd have just quit being a d**k to his people and the US, he'd be rolling in money like Cuba was in the 20's. I we call these decisions "cutting off your nose just to spite your face."
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