"JHC, gimme a break. The only reason a country like North Korea has nukes is as a last-ditch self-defense measure. The only way they would strike is if the US or South Korea invaded them and threatened to topple their leaders.
"Solution: Don't invade North Korea or any other nuclear armed country."
Is it possible for a human being to be more delusional and wrong headed?
China has something like 18-25 nukes, and when the U.S. sent an ambassador to protest warlike moves against Taiwan, one of their leaders politely inquired how fond we are of Los Angeles.
North Korea is ruled by certified madmen, who are monomaniacs about "reunification" with the South. They trained assassins in hermetically-sealed environments, fanatics programmed to bomb planes and murder S. Korean leaders. Their world-view is centered on invading the South, and their nuclear-weapons program is designed to permit them to deal with the few thousand U.S. troops who stand in their way.
What you fail to comprehend is that, in the minds of these fanatics, a single nuke is all they need. They calculate that the U.S., with all of its weapons, can be deterred by the threat of using a single nuke against one of its cities. Your thinking shows that--at least for some misguided Americans--their calculation is correct.
So "don't invade any nuclear armed country," eh? Can we just pre-emptively nuke them instead?
--Boris