Plato is dead

Yglesias:

We have two countries: Iran has a nuclear research program that could be turned to military purposes, and North Korea has one that’s built and tested actual nuclear weapons. Iran is led by people who mouth off but have generally followed a cautious foreign policy; North Korea is led by people who stage repeated deliberate provocations and routinely break deals. For no particularly good reason, our political debate spends much more time focusing on the less severe problem.