North Korea far worse threat than Iran

North Korea's nuclear program remains a grave threat, posing a far greater challenge to world peace than Iran's controversial nuclear enrichment, according to Gareth Evans of the Ploughshares-funded International Crisis Group. His warnings came as the U.S. decided to move additional missile defenses to Hawaii over fears the rogue state might launch a nuclear missile. Evans, who also serves as co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, commented, "There are no good options at all. We're dealing with a country whose motives are pretty impenetrable and for which the policy responses are all pretty unpalatable." When it comes to North Korea, he concluded, diplomacy remained the "least bad option."