North Korea is unlikely to use its nuclear weapons unless Kim Jong-Il's regime feels its survival is at stake, US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, pictured in January 2009, said Thursday. (AFP/File/Yuri Gripas)From Yahoo News/AFP:
WASHINGTON (AFP) – North Korea is unlikely to use its nuclear weapons unless Kim Jong-Il's regime feels its survival is at stake, US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said Thursday.
On the proliferation front, North Korea has sold ballistic missiles to Iran and other Middle Eastern nations, and helped Syria to build a nuclear reactor, he said in testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Addressing intense speculation about Kim's health, Blair said the veteran ruler "probably suffered a stroke in August that incapacitated him for several weeks" and hindered his ability to operate as actively as before the stroke.
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My Comment: Survival at stake???? .... who is going to invade that country and assume responsibility for that basket case. The answer is simple ... NO ONE.
North Korea wants a bomb because it means money and resources from their neighbors when they go about threatening and blackmailing them when times get rough. Nothing more. Nothing less.