We have nukes. Many other countries have nukes. Even though I hate Kim Jong Il, why can't they pursue nukes if we have them and everyone else has them?

It's like gun control. The US would have a very hard time (rightfully so) outlawing the manufacture and sale of guns, but if they did, then you wouldn't be able to own a gun. If you tried to own a gun (North Korea), the government would punish you. Even though you're simply trying to level the playing field in the purchase of your gun, and taking into account the fact that you may be a back-country racist redneck (not alluding to anyone here) or that you may be an upstanding citizen, the government would then make a judgment and take your gun. How would that make you feel? Who are they to take your right to bear arms?

Of course, this logic is contingent upon the fact that pursuing nuclear weapons in a sovereign state is a right (which I think it is).

What do y'all think?