On October 9, 2006 in open defiance of previous United Nations Security Council resolutions conducted its first nuclear weapons test. On October 14th. the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 1718 in response. This resolution called for a range of sanctions against North Korea. Less than a month earlier the U. S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued a report entitled Recognizing North Korea as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States to assess the threat. But does the UN’s latest resolution make the United States, or any other part of the world safer ? Using the House Committee Report as a guide, I want to take a look at that question.THREAT: Conventional MilitaryNorth Korea has an active duty military of over 1.2 million people, with 5 million more in reserve. The Resolution 1718 does forbid the sale of tanks and other heavy military goods to the North Koreans. So there is some help here if the sanctions can be effectively enforced, and this is a big if.THREAT: Nuclear Weapons ProgramThis is the big one ! The Resolution 1718 was enacted specifically to counter this threat. Even if the resolution makes us safer in some ways, yet…