North Korea appears to have bought a complete nuclear weapon from either Pakistan or a former Soviet Union state, a South Korean newspaper said on Thursday quoting a source in Washington.
Seoul Shinmun quoted the source as saying the United States was checking the intelligence.
The purchase was apparently intended to avoid nuclear weapons testing that could be detected from the outside, the source was quoted as saying.
North Korea is believed to have one or two nuclear weapons and possibly more than eight.
If true, what would this tell us?
It could tell us that they fear getting caught testing a weapon--which is odd considering apologizts claim North Korea wants to deter us from invading. Just how is somebody deterred when their deterrent is secret? And so how were we deterred from invading so long when they had no nukes? Oh what am I doing here? Trying to be logical? Sheesh. Never mind.
Or it could tell us that they haven't succeeded in building a bomb and they want something. But there is still that secrecy problem.
Or it could tell us that they have no confidence in their own nuclear designs and fabricating ability so they want one quality imported nuke in case the home-built nukes fizzle out.
Regardless, I hope we have set up phony nuke merchants to sell secretly defective nuclear bombs. If North Korea is trying to buy a nuke, I want them to find our guys doing the "selling."
