N. Korea's gotta nuke
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Now we're (the world) is f.u.b.a.r.
At least with Iran the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) recognizes the "inalienable right" of all signatories to "the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information" related to the "use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes."
That means that Iran has the "inalienable right" to acquire nuclear reactors or uranium-enrichment centrifuges from Russia. That also means that Iran is required to subject to IAEA Safeguards all uranium, plutonium and thorium – in whatever form and however obtained – as well as all activities wherein safeguarded materials are transformed, produced or processed.
On the other hand, the DPRK has no such requirement.
Under Article II, each no-nuke signatory agrees "not to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons."
Iran, in agreeing to an Additional Protocol to their Safeguards Agreement, has essentially given the IAEA the authority to police that agreement.
But the DPRK is no longer subject to the NPT and can now develop, test, manufacture and sell nukes.
Sell nukes being the key phrase above.
Again. We're fucked.