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4. What, if anything, do you find peculiar / unprecedented about the current torrent of North Korean ‘abuse’?

"Unlike during the previous 60 years of confrontation, this time North Korea evidently has some nuclear deterrence that prompts its leadership to be particularly bold and impudent.
Unlike during the previous 60 years of confrontation, this time North Korea evidently has some nuclear deterrence that prompts its leadership to be particularly bold and impudent.

Nobody can do anything with a nuclear North Korea and its regime any more. The chain of mistakes made by George W. Bush was exacerbated by the inaction of Barack Obama. As a result, in 2013 North Korea has just changed the world order by rending the nuclear non-proliferation regime defunct and opening the era of nuclear permissiveness."
Dr. Leonid Petrov