[John Valentine]

I'm going to come back to you in a few months and point out how wrong you were in the above post.

Whether the US takes counter measures earlier or later; before the test or after, it makes no difference. North Korea WILL test a nuke, and they will do it before the year is out.

As for their reactor, its power generation capability is almost nil, and it has no commercial value. This reactor is valuable to the North solely and precisely as a weapon fuel producer. To expect them NOT top harvest its plutonium is as unrealistic as to expect a farmer not to harvest his crops at the end of the growing season.

[Southack]

"I'm going to come back to you in a few months and point out how wrong you were in the above post."

A few months later and I'm still right.

Oh ye of little faith...

[Southack]

"I'm going to come back to you in a few months and point out how wrong you were in the above post.

Whether the US takes counter measures earlier or later; before the test or after, it makes no difference. North Korea WILL test a nuke, and they will do it before the year is out."

Clock's ticking.