As Obama era nears, task force fears dawning of the age of nuclear proliferation
Much of the report focuses on the Middle East, with Pakistan seen as the crossroads for the transfer of nuclear material and technology on a circuit that seems to run from Syria and Iran to North Korea.
The report offers few specifics, but Allison, proliferation expert at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, painted a dire picture of North Korea's rise as a nuclear power since the breakdown of the 1994 Geneva agreement in 2002.
The great fear is that North Korea, besides threatening South Korea, may attempt to sell nuclear warheads to some of the world's worst terrorists.
"Can you imagine Kim Jong-il selling a nuclear bomb to Osama Bin Laden?" Allison asked. He followed up by asking, "Can you imagine Kim Jong-il selling a nuclear reactor to Syria” — exactly as North Korea did before Israeli warplanes bombed it out in September 2007?