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If indeed this a true nuke test and not a 'fizzle' that Lil'Kim is conning the world into thinking its a test. The following will happen in short order.

Japan will quietly go nuclear in about a week.
In about a year maybe sooner they will announce they are a nuclear power.
South Korea will go nuclear but it will take longer. They are not quite as technically advanced as the Japanese also they have this inept semi-pacifist Roh regime that will probably delay the decision.

The long term danger is Lil'Kim will provide a "Sears catalog of destruction" to anyone who can pay the freight.
Selling nukes is a potential major new source of hard currency for the cash-strapped North. Right now their Scuds (The best 1960's technology at New Millennium prices!) are a big seller. I see the following customers for Kim's "Little House of Nukes", a) Iran, b) Syria, c) Venezuela. We removed part of the customer base by taking out Saddam. (In my opinion, probably the biggest reason Saddam's nuclear program wasn't restarted in a big way was because he had two potential suppliers North Korea & Libya. Note: Bush's "hidden" policies also took Libya out of the equation as a supplier! A major major success, that for some reason the WH isn't trumpeted !)
Ok do you want to sit out this off-year election because your "pet gripe" about the GOP hasn't been addressed adequately or the GOP'er on the slate isn't pure enough, consider the above "New World Order". Do you want the Pelosi's, the Rangel's, the Kucinich's and other goo-goo's & gaa-gaa's of the Democratic party to march forth and handle national security? Maybe Soros & MoveOn.Org have some answers?
Remember Lil'Kim will sell to anybody on a cash-n-carry basis. And I mean anybody !