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 http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/arti...

Ever since Pyongyang in 1993 declared it would leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the White House has wrestled how to deal with the challenge posed by North Korea, as a nuclear armed state that would threaten not only America's close ally South Korea, where up to 37,000 US troops are based, and whose new weapons would raise the spectre of a wider nuclear arms race in east Asia.

Nice background on the events leading up to N. Korea's aquisition of nuclear weapons technology, and where things go from here.