If you believe this article, they already have nukes that can hit the US. Assuming they do, are you willing to lose a major American city or three or ten?
NORK/Iran can kicking fits in so well with the rest of US Gov’t plans...
They cannot set up a liquid-fueled ICBM while under aggressive assault by the USAF.
The existential transition is a solid fueled ICBM.
And, EMP surge will disable their launch electronics while on the surface waiting for that rocket to fuel.
Even if they get ONE off, we have missile defense that might get it.
It’s better to take that risk now, today, than at any day in the future.
Yes, I vote to launch a preemptive war, today.
And I live in a city that is ostensibly in Nork range.
And I call all the naysayers pussies and cowards that care not for the world their progeny will inherit.
Neville Chamberlain expressed the same ideas you have - was war with Hitler inevitable? Neville’s famous statement “Peace In Our Time” rings down through history as the single most folly ever with more people killed in WWII than all known wars combined - if Europe and USA had stood up to Hitler and Hirohito before the outbreak of hostilities, it would not have been necessary to fire bomb German cities and drop two atom bombs on Japan