Their economy is in shambles, agricultural output is vastly lower than sustenance levels and natural disasters have devastated their country. They realize their communist ideology has failed and look with envy at their democratic southern neighbors who are immeasurably better off and awash in food. All North Koreans have left is their national pride and military weaponry. According to the MAD doctrine, it will nuke North Korea into the Stone Age. Terrorists Osama bin Laden is the face of the new terrorist one who abandons all the trappings of immense wealth just to attack the non-Islamic West.
Terrorists backed by colossal wealth presents the world with a new dilemma.
Their financial resources are so large that they can purchase anything or bribe anyone they want. It s obvious the current doctrine of MAD is incapable of handling today s unstable world. It s horrifying to learn that there s absolutely nothing in place that the US can use to prevent a single nuclear-armed ballistic missile from destroying one of its cities after it s been launched by terrorists. Even Russia and China can be protected from ballistic missile attacks by rogue nations or terrorists and would definitely be appreciative of the US destroying the missile before it destroys one of their cities. Russia will eventually agree to abandon the 1972 ABM treaty as it s currently written since it realizes it s the primary target of terrorists who oppose its involvement in Chechnya and other Muslim regions.