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From this book:

China's nuclear ICBM force will grow from forty missiles to as many as 220. Rivals Pakistan and India will more than double their nuclear stockpile. Stalinist North Korea may have ten atomic weapons by 2020. Israel will maintain an arsenal of about eighty warheads. North Korea posseses not only two to four nuclear weapons - of limited nuclear yield - but it also has an offensive biological and chemical arsenal. Says the DIA report, "Despite limited intelligence on the status of its biological warfare capabilities, North Korea is thought to have developed agents including anthrax, plague, cholera and toxins."

Given recent history, the first question should be: "Is this information accurate?" For all we know it is a complete fabrication.

Assuming that it is accurate, then these truly are weapons of mass destruction. The second question would be, "What are we going to do about it?" Do we do nothing? Do we apply the doctrine of preemption? Do we try diplomacy? Do we buy them out?