Thoughts On the North Korean Nuclear Detonation

I've been perplexed by the hysterical reaction to the recent North Korean nuclear test. Sure, another nation possessing the bomb is not ideal, but the risk that the regime would ever use the weapons is slight. The means of controlling North Korea's nuclear arsenal is the same that has effectively worked in preventing nuclear war for 60 years.

North Korea knows that using nuclear weapons is paramount to signing the regime's death warrant. Any deployment use of a nuclear weapon would provoke a response in kind many times worse. Paranoid they may be, but not insane.

The challenge for the West is to contain the country. Hopefully, an international effort will be enacted to monitor movements in and out of the country to prevent the export of its nuclear and missile technology.

The events in North Korea are disturbing, but controllable. Tight containment is the way to mitigate the risk it poses to its neighbours.