This Should Make You Feel Better

From the Chosun:

North Korea is one of the world’s foremost providers of missile technology, but experts say there is still no evidence that Pyongyang has shared its suspected stocks of nuclear materials or chemical and biological weapons.

“You’d have to export a lot of these things to make a significant difference, that’s something that would be highly observable, and again, something that countries themselves might be able to accomplish without having to rely on North Korea,” [the expert] noted.

So relax. We have no absolute proof beyond a reasonable doubt that they’ve sold any plutonium to terrorists or their sponsors. Yet. Then, a few paragraphs later, we get this:

But some experts think the initiative has problems. They say the chief flaw is that it may not detect small weapons shipments, such as the eight kilograms of fissile material needed to make a crude nuclear weapon, or the workings of a missile guidance system.

That is why the current six-nation talks are seen as the best hope to get North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program and end any proliferation threat.

Emphasis all mine, and what a roller coaster that was! But it seems that whether North Korea “is seen” as a danger or not, more talks “are seen” as the best way to get North Korea’s hope-to-die promise not to sell slimy stuff to slimy people.

You know who your friends are by how comfortably they allocate risks to you.