A bit worrying!

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Hence why the UN always goes loopy over stuff like this - because all it's members already have nukes and don't want to share the power about any further.

Only a very small number of the 193 UN member countries have nuclear weapons by the way.

Suffice to say, even if North Korea manage to build a viable nuclear weapon, I simply can't see them being crackers enough to actually use it.

After all, they've had the capability to render a sizeable part of South Korea - a country they're still technically at war with - to rubble for a long time and haven't yet.

Far more of a concern is the amount of low grade nuclear material that's not properly secured in various parts of the world that could easily be converted into a dirty bomb by one of the crackpot groups out there, and that would be sufficient to render a large part of a major Western city uninhabitable and cause many nasty radiation related illnesses and eventual deaths.

They haven't done it because whilst their propaganda machine states otherwise, I imagine that their military analysts are well aware that whilst they could infilct massive civillian losses on S.Korea, the resulting counter attack would see their regime destroyed. It's mutually assured destruction, both sides have a huge amount to lose by actually going to war, hence why even live firing incidents and skirmishes have not escalated to full-scale conflicts.

that proves why you don't want to piss off Korea, china etc. As those are the ones that will destroy the world if you piss them off.

I am doing my best not to tear you a new one over that, do me a favour and try to keep the ignorance down please mate. 

Tbqh it's all just political manoeuvring, North Korea want to be taken seriously on the global stage and believe they need nuclear capabilities to do so, quite rightly as far as i can tell. Hence why the UN always goes loopy over stuff like this - because all it's members already have nukes and don't want to share the power about any further.

Tear me a new one pal???  ignorance??  Ok poodle anything you say

Procta, what evidence to you have to suggest that China intend to destroy the world if provoked in the future? It would seem to me that people are taking issue with you assuming that people of a different country would be evil enough to destroy the world just because they're from a different country.