Homage to the cold war

North Korean statement that it "successfully conducted an underground nuclear test under secure conditions" made her one of the certain members of "nuclear club". The point which makes this event more important is the fact that, the communist regime of North Korea, one of the few reminders of cold war era, acts boldly against American public and strategic policies.
One of the post-cold war paradigms for U.S public diplomacy oriented around total controlling and limiting countries with nuclear power. United States major concern in the recent years was to halt addition to the members of "nuclear club" especially those regimes which are challenge to American values and interests.
It is clear that North Korea, even with the technology of making atomic bomb can not be a threat to U.S national security due to her lack of ballistic and intercontinental missile; but the challenge which it caused for U.S role, as international police has made American neo-cons nervous.
Pyongyang believing in the fact that the language of military power is the only language which disciples of power politics understand, tries to create a new international condition in which she got a stronger voice.
Kim Jong Il's nuclear test not only escalated the tension in the region but also threaten the united states global position as international gendarme, the position which is derived out of America's high military technology and her ability to perform military operation in every part of the world, from Latin America to mid east, and from central Africa to far east.
North Korea's nuclear test questioned the America's power to maintain statu que in the Far East.
Another issue which has made Pyongyang recent decision important is its coincidence with Iran's nuclear crises.Iranian had acquired good experiences from U.S military invasion to Afghanistan, Iraq and recently Lebanon (not to mention that during the 33 days of Israeli invasion, Israel only fought for the first week and the rest was American war). Having the advantage of analyzing American war techniques and military supplies, North Korea is a good case for I.R.I to understand us political tactics and world reaction toward it. this case is also an appropriate criteria to test the behavior and policies of Iran's traditional allies i.e. Russia and china.