North Korea has nukes!
Originally Posted by WTF
And they constantly threaten us.
Here's the differences:
1) They don't have massive oil reserves that can give them a huge amount of hard cash
2) NK has China so that if NK used the nuclear weapon, China would be forced to act else it would cost them dearly financially
3) NK doesn't escalate other marginal nations to get a bomb, their neighboring countries either have a bomb or are allies with folks that would retaliate for them.
4) NK having the bomb doesn't put a $10 premium on each barrel of oil
There are many others. To accommodate your poor reading comprehension, I only listed four.