Fear of nuclear North Korea is overblown 

The Terry-Klingner piece on Saturday offers some pertinent analysis of North Korea and its nuclear weapons policy.
They state that the DPRK won’t give up its WMD, and that in itself is hardly surprising; we (primarily the West) however went to war with Iraq on the manufactured prospectus that Saddam Hussein had these armaments, which was of course patently untrue.
Considering the obverse, Pyongyang openly admits to testing and expanding its nuclear inventory for some time, and what happens? Nothing.
One of the big sticks the DPRK uses to beat the West is their own de facto declared nuclear status, yet we lecture North Korea (and Iran) for trying to join this rather exclusive club. The usual mantra trotted out by Washington and London, for example, is that these two pariah states can’t be trusted not to use these weapons, so shouldn’t have them.
They conveniently ignore MAD theory (Mutual Assured Destruction) which suggests that any state that instigates a first-use strategy would invite reciprocal immolation, thence defeating the object and committing national suicide, if that be the term. In other words, it doesn’t add up. Now, with all this scaremongering, people are becoming as afraid as we were during and after the Cuban missile crisis. That said, there are enough nucleomituphobiacs on the planet as it is.
Dr Frank
Bangkok