https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/14/if-north-korea-already-has-the-bomb-then-so-does-iran/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 03:53:47 -0400<![CDATA[For North Korea, the incentive to transfer technology, or an actual bomb, in exchange for money, or whatever else the regime needs, is powerful. The only world power capable of discouraging them from proliferating is China, but the Chinese are not going to push much harder than offering stiff rhetoric. The Chinese don’t necessarily want North Korea to have a bomb, but what they fear even more is destabilizing their neighbor such that the regime falls, the Korean peninsula is reunited, and they wind up with a pro-American government hosting 50,000 U.S. troops on their border. Beijing prefers to have a buffer.]]>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:40:14 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/14/if-north-korea-already-has-the-bomb-then-so-does-iran-n100142