Nuclear Rights

As a person who lives in the United States, it worries me that North Korea apparently has successfully tested a nuclear weapon. While Kim Jong Il doesn't strike me as the most stable guy in the world, he and I do seem to share a love of basketball. Word has it he's a big NBA fan. Ironically, his hatred of the Western World only reaches as far as its people and ideologies. He loves the food and entertainment choices. I like to picture him sitting on his Pottery Barn couch eating a Big Mac while giggling at a Seinfeld re-run waiting for the Laker game to start.

Anyway, in an attempt to put myself in someone else's shoes, I wonder how I would feel if I lived in North Korea and was being told by countries who have nuclear weapons that I couldn't have one. Might I be worried then?

Bottom line, it's not that I want North Korea to have a nuclear weapon, I wish nobody had one. But that's not the world we live in. No, we live in a world where billions of dollars are spent not only to defend ourselves, but also to entertain ourselves while children die because they can't afford a 20 cent immunization. That not only worries me, it breaks my heart.