Had dinner the other night with a friend who's a rocket scientist. I mean this literally. (Like, if someone said to him, "what are you, some kind of rocket scientist?", he would answer, "well, yeah, actually I am.")
Anyway, he is fully aware of America's technology...and what the Pentagon and the Intelligence agencies believe Un's technology is.
So, in answer to the question, "is this something we (Americans) should really be worried about?"
His answer was, "yes."
So that's good enough for me.
But that leads to the question of what we do about it. Assuming there were an easy answer, I believe we would have already stumbled on it.
If Un launches a nuclear attack on American soil, he knows his nation disappears. Any U.S. President pushes the button. Maybe he doesn't care?
If we launch a first strike against them, then there is no leading nation in the world anymore. Our claim to leadership is gone. Anything goes.
But what if Un decides to drop a couple nukes on South Korea? What do we--or the rest of the world--do then?
I don't have an answer.