[The Turbanator]

But NK took lots of considerations from the US

Yes considerations we should never have given. This is all water under the bridge, Now What? Nuke North Korea, fallout from our weapons spreads around the world, all because NK tested one of their own nukes. I still don't see what the test will prove. Let Lil Kim jump up and down, stamp his feet, throw a Nuclear tantrum on his own country,it will be just one less nuke he has to use in the future.

I don't want NK to have any nukes, but they do and a test still will not bring about all out war.

[GregoryFul]

Your policy would open the floodgates for all tinpots to get the bomb (how about a nuclear Cuba). There would be no nonproliferation treaty, no controlling legal authority would exist. Lots of people around the world, not too long ago, thought that spreading nukes around the world would be a very bad thing - and would inevitably lead to widespread nuclear conflict. This seems a reasonable projection to me. So before the problem gets really big, some nation or group of nations has to manage it.

In the case of NK, we've tried diplomacy, bribery, threats, etc., apparently to no avail with this rogue nation - the rest of the world watches to see if we indeed are just a paper tiger.