From Kristof's Op-Ed piece in today's Times, "The Greatest Threat":

I called Kim Myong Chol, a North Korean unofficial spokesman, who said his country would respond to sanctions not just by reviving Yongbyon [nuclear plant], but also by ramping up weapons exports.

"North Korea can export missile and nuclear technology to the highest bidder," he noted dryly. "It's a capitalist practice."

"If America tries to knock out Yongbyon," Mr. Kim added, "North Korea will retaliate immediately on New York and Washington, wipe out South Korea, wipe out Japan."

I observed to Mr. Kim that I was speaking from Midtown Manhattan. "Well okay," he said obligingly, "maybe not New York. Washington and Chicago instead."

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