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Nothing can really stop North Korea from getting nukes at this point, I think/ They've been swaying to and fro over the last ten years with regards to the nuclear reactor issue, and most likely they've spent that time making their nukes (and missiles)work as well. We can pressure the DPRK all we want, but they don't really care since most of the world already sees them in the darkest of lights anyhow. The only way, short of war, to prevent NK from getting nukes, is for China to clearly and loudly threaten Kim-Jong Il. Everyone says that "China doesn't want North Korea to have nukes" or "China finds North Korea embarrassing," which do hold some truth, but if that were entirely the case, China would be cutting off all materials to that nation and making clear threats. IMO China wants to give the impression that it is undecided, because it does not want to anger the 1st World nations it does business with, but at the same time it finds North Korea to be a nice buffer state/ally.
tl;dr: North Korea will get a nuke b/cuz it doesn't care what the USA says and the only country that does matter to it, China, isn't going to say anything because they're allies.
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