In fact, as the Center for Security Policy has repeatedly observed (1), there is no demonstrable connection between the presence or absence of a modest U.S. nuclear test program and decisions by the likes of Kim Il Sung, Saddam Hussein, Hafez Assad or the mullahs of Iran as to whether or how aggressively they will seek nuclear weapons capabilities.
Vause has anchored a number of breaking news stories on both networks including the Arab Spring, the Japan earthquake and tsunami, the death of Kim Jung Il and the U.S. government shutdown.
"Without the U.S. market, the survival of Kim Jong Il's economic policy could be in jeopardy, " says economist Yoon Duk Ryong of the Korea Economic Research Institute.