ìAnd frankly, Communist armor, it turns out, sucks.î

Yes, like anything else produced by command economy.

That is why I have my doubts about the NK nuclear capability: even if they managed to produce few nukes, it is a tossup where these would end up after the launch: back in silo of origin, North Pole, Russia, somewhere in the middle of vast Pacific or few yards short of Carmel, California. My personal bet is the silo.

That does not mean that they cannot sell this stuff to terrorist, though.

Re: jobs. I am in SF and I am very much attuned to the start-up environment. Projects that for last 3 years were not even looked are suddenly finding customers willing to put money down. Engineers who two years ago worked with my husband for ìequityî are not available anymore because they all found well paying jobs. Because of that my poor husband slaves on 2 jobs now: the one that pays the mortgage and the one that never before brought anything but hopes and expenses, but suddenly there is a chance that it might pay real money. The entrepreneurial climate in tech is still very fragile, the last thing that we need is Osama delivering one of his explosive ìpolicy messageî.