While we're talking about insanity......
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapc....ap/index.html
The leaders of North Korea stated that if the US launched a pre-emptive strike on the North, they would respond with "Nuclear Annihilation"......
1) I doubt we would launch a pre-emptive strike. The South Korean military is perfectly capable of defending the south. They are one of the few countries still fielding multiple field armies( a unit of military organization that is on the huge side of things)
2) We are in the process of selling South Korea ABM capable SAM's. Far more likely that SK would use them to intercept a strike rather than relying on the US.
3) There's an old song that goes something like...
"you don't tug on superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind......."
Rhetoric reaches a point where it is self defeating. We don't need nukes to immobilize a fair % of the north Korean military. They launch Nukes South Korea is liable to become a new island in the yellow sea.
I just have to question how much longer North Korea can survive with their current government in place. Dictatorships tend to do ugly things to try to stave off their demise.
