Reply #2: It has to do with fealty to the west

[Lerkfish]

Obviously, we're giving nukes to Pakistan, we're forgiving nukes in N Korea, we're pretending that Israel pretending they have none is okeydokey, etc.

it comes down to the fact that the stated reasons do not match the actual reasons, as you've already surmised.

It comes down to how CONTROLLABLE those countries are, or how we perceive their controllability to be, completely irregardless of their actual WMD threat (as we've seen with Iraq).