Sanctions

During the almost 50 years of the cold war the world was held together by the concept of mutually assured destruction properly called MAD. We now have North Korea developing hydrogen bombs and rockets to go with them. The assumption is that MAD will once again work since NOK understands that using such weapons would mean their total destruction. A real and present danger still exist since NOK needs money and would not hesitate to sell these bombs to the highest bidder. We now have countries who believe that WW 3 would be the end of the world and many in these countries look forward to that day. In this MAD would be an incentive not a deterrent. If some Muslim country would attack Israel with an H-bomb then Israel would retaliate in kind and the Middle East would blow up and the rest of the world would be forced to take sides and on and on. The West must move forward on total sanctions against NOK which by definition means total sanctions against China. It is only when China’s fragile economic growth is threatened that they will enforce the sanctions against NOK.