>> Any country with the ability to manufacture basic fertilizer can create potentially devastating biological and chemical weapons. It isn't anything new. If you honestly believe the U.S. does not have such capability, you are an idiot.

Umm, nobody said the US didn't. It's not even relevant. The real problem begins when NK starts selling biological or chemical agents (either directly or indirectly via pakistan) to people who plan to use them instead of just maintaining the terror balance.

The main reason that terrorists usually tend to stick to conventional weapons is that a low-tech basement-size facility isn't sufficient to produce agents for a real attack. So they want to buy, and NK needs cash.. Not a good combination.

>> At our current level of technology, bioweapons are always going to be a threat. Most countries have the ability to make them with relative ease and we can't possibly develop and effectively stockpile vaccines/cures for every weaponized form of every fatal disease.

Actually, I remember bush asking for $6B to do something along those lines... :p