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As for your first post of the two, I'm not sure I really understand where you're coming from. Cancer can be caused by almost anything nowadays, yet that wasn't my initial point. What I'm basically saying is that NK's neighbors wouldn't be particularly happy if the US dropped a nuclear bomb on North Korea, irradiating trillions of particles which are then carried by the wind into their countries. Japan & Russia have populations of ~120,000,000 - 150,000,000 people. The number of people killed as a result of the detonation of a nuclear device will be minimal, nevermind the number of people that are killed by cancer as a secondary effect of the detonation.

As I previously said, some cultures have a greater resistance to harmful radiation, plus, many cases of cancer come from the gene pool, which is only getting more-and-more polluted with cancerous genes. This is why some countries have very high cancer rates.

Going back to my example of birth defects, if you want to see why neighboring countries don't want a fifty-megaton toxic bomb blown up next to them, just search Chernobyl legacy in Google.