There’s been no official confirmation from any source I’ve seen that the NK test was a nuke and successful. Some say it was a dud.
So how it is that Pakistan can have nukes, the US wants India to have them, but a tiny country, desperately poor with a loony leader, is somehow a Major Menace because they test a bomb that might not have even functioned properly?
Kim Jong Il may be eccentric, but it’s the U.S. who has a leader who is downright dangerous. Which is preferable – a leader who likes making movies, or a leader who likes making war?