BREAKING: North Korea Has Just Fired Another Ballistic Missile

[purplepurpose]

While a nuclear attack by any nation takes the world into uncharted territory, and certainly introduce the possibility of unanticipated reaction by the players and unexpected escalation, there can be absolutely no doubt whatsoever that an unprovoked nuclear attack by the United States on North Korea will have vastly more far reaching consequences and unpredictable effects than an unprovoked nuclear attack by North Korea on the US.  

This is simply that the US has the nuclear arsenal to annihilate any country in the world.  Demonstration by the US that it’s threhold for unleashing the nuclear arsenal is much lower than previously expected would likely immediately provoke many nations with the capacity to build their own nuclear deterrence to immediately cross the line and actually build that deterrence.   It would also commit China, whose nuclear arsenal is currently just a minimum deterrence, to embark upon a program to match American nuclear arsenal.  

Where as North korea’s Nuclear arsenal is small, does not create existential threat to many nations other than South Korea, and perhaps japan, and North Korea is unlikely to survive to continue having any impact on the world if it were to attack the US.

N. Koreans have a real demigod/superman leader. Nukes won't help.

[Anomalocaris]

Maybe the semi-god can take so much food out of his subjects’ mouths to fatten himself that he would put on an impenetrable shield of blubber to deflect any nuclear bombardment.