North Korea is a more serious threat to United States National Security than Iran

==AC== 1. North Korea attacking allies --> No link to U.S. national security --> North Korea wont escalate provocations, risk of regime collapse from South Korean and U.S. intervention. Myer 3, Carlton Editor: North Korean attack would stall after a few intense days and South Korean forces would soon be in position to overrun North Korea. American air and naval power along with logistical and intelligence support would ensure the rapid collapse of the North Korean army. 2. Proliferation --> North Korea lacks incentive to go to war --> North Korea does not have the ability to create functional ICBMs (CNN) --> North Korea needs aid to keep regime stable. Any aggression that results in loss of aid or military action collapses the regime. Ha-Won, Chinese Center for Asian Relations 3. Iran is not dangerous --> Threat to national security derives from terrorism, not conventional warfare --> The Iranians crushed the rebels after the fraudulent elections ==NC== Contention 1: Iran has closer ties to terrorist organizations than North Korea The Council on Foreign Relations writes: Iran backs Islamist groups, including Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorist groups like Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command…Tehran has sought to leverage the militant group, Al Qaeda, against U.S. interests. senior al-Qaeda figures maintained close ties to Iranian security officials and had frequently traveled across Iran's border. AND North Korea lacks these ties The Council on Foreign Relations [2] writes: North Korea has not been associated with any acts of terrorism since 1987, when it was linked to the bombing of a Korean Airlines flight. This means that North Korea lacks internal close ties to terrorist organizations, which makes the threat of terrorists looking to North Korea for nuclear weapons minimal to negligible. AND Iran is proliferating The Council on Foreign Relations [3] writes: At Natanz, first-generation centrifuges purchased from Pakistan spin uranium hexafluoride at great speeds to increase the percentage of uranium-235, the principal ingredient for both power production and weapons capability. Natural uranium contains 0.7 percent of the uranium-235 isotope, and generally, light-water power reactors require enrichment levels of 3 percent to 5 percent. The impact of this is that Iran has the capability now to sell or distribute nuclear materials to terrorist organizations. AND this sparks regional proliferation, making nuclear terror much more likely Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, writes UN Secretary General Kofi Annan' warned that developments in Iran threatened to erode the entire nonproliferation regime to a point of "irreversibility" that could trigger a "cascade of proliferation." If Iran crosses its nuclear finish line, a Middle Eastern cascade of new nuclear weapons states could produce the first multiparty nuclear arms race, Egypt's prospects of it living unarmed alongside a nuclear Persia are very low.. Were Saudi Arabia to buy a dozen nuclear warheads that could be mated to the Chinese medium-range ballistic missiles it purchased secretly in the 1980s, few in the American intelligence community would be surprised. A new nuclear state goes through a period of "nuclear adolescence" that poses special dangers of accidental or unauthorized use-and Iran would be no different.. Fearing preemption, new nuclear weapons states rationally adopt loose command and control arrangements.