A funny thought! And we might be surprised. But Kim's friendship probably has too high a price.

SK did some very interesting work in the 80s on laser enrichment. Unlike gas centrifuges, lasers are not that closely watched. 1000 sats says they have working nukes three months after breaking up with USA.

Which is really not that impressive a timeframe, I guess.

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I don't know... The North has been trying for what... 12 years?

East and West Germany went through a few cycles of rapprochement and hostility, before tying the knot under less-than-equal circumstances.

I suppose the Korean Peninsula could to. A rapprochement between Japan and the PRC could catalyse it.

I'm not particularly scared of a nuclear armed South.. But then I can say "don't shoot me" in Korean 🤣

I would mess up the tones, and say something embarrassing if I tried :-p