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Warren Stupidity

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2. The North Korean dictatorship may collapse, meanwhile their nuclear capability

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Mon Feb 18, 2013, 10:50 AM

Feb 2013

Now protects them from military attack. The nukes may in fact prolong the life of the dictatorship, if for example they use their deterrent as a means to reduce the size of their conventional military force and divert resources to production of food and other necessities. Not likely, but while bizarre and brutal, the North Korean government is not stupid.

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