We can extract two insights from figure 4.2 that can help us predict if we are looking at a purely international political decision (which we are not). First, there really isn’t that much clout supporting North Korea’s nuclear program. None of the positions that favor North Korea’s keeping a nuclear program are backed by a really large amount of power. Second, piling the mountains of power one on top of the other as we move across the spectrum of choices, we discover that the pile does not reach a majority of all the power until we get to the position designated as “Eliminate Nuclear Programs
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