Reply #10: I have even advocated encouraging countries, especially poor ones with

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lots of starving people, to pour what limited national treasure they have into building a few nuclear weapons. The people may be poorer and hungrier than ever, but at least the ruling royal dictator doesn't have to fear invasion of his starving barren wasteland. :sarcasm:

Africa, other than its democracies, would seem to be a great market for the sale of nuclear weapon building technology. Plenty of dictators would love to have a nuclear weapon or two. Wouldn't help their poor citizens very much, unless they sleep better knowing that their ruler is safer in his throne.

If NK was a democracy like India and Pakistan (at the time) were when they went nuclear, you could make the argument that the people actually wanted such weapons. When a royal dictator of a starving country does it, my assumption is that he would like to keep his cushy job.