Decades from now, observers will look back at the Anglo-French intervention in Libya as the watershed that led to the birth of a ring of nuclear states around Europe. The Libyan intervention is as unfavorable to Western interests as the Suez Canal intervention (scotched, unfortunately, by Eisenhower) was favorable to it.
I can see your reasoning (North Korea), but it all depends on whether the arab countries do in fact get nukes. Pakistan is certainly learning the dangers of their own terrorists, and I understand that Israel blew up a nuke shipment to Syria from N. Korea. Even the Russians may be getting nervous. I’m sure some will try, but will they be allowed to succeed?
Meanwhile, I just heard a radio report from the Turkish border. He interviewed a man who had just escaped with his wife, 10 children, and 4 horses from a hamlet two villages above the town under seige. Assad’s tanks pulled into the lower village and shot every house with tank shells, then they moved out into the fields and destroyed the orchards and field crops. Figuring his village was next, the refugee grabbed his family and fled to Turkey. He believes that a scorched earth plan is being implemented prior to destroying the town. If so, the refugees will be in Turkey for quite a while.