Its true- you guys have predicted 10 of the last 1 global upheavals. Congratulations.

I did not find the links in any of these articles to be satisfactory.

For instance, one cannot substantiate the claim that the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs are one and the same by casually linking to a 300 word stratpage article- one which only passingly hints that N. Korea might sell nukes to Iran but offers no evidence of any kind.

SAO

"There are none so deaf as those who do not wish to hear and none so blind as those who don't wish to see."

This is Micheal Yon reporting on the NRO corner blog:

Not Atomic [Michael Yon]
A very well-placed government source told me Tuesday afternoon that the North Korean explosion was non-nuclear. The explosion may have been an actual nuclear test - this is unknown - but the source reports the outcome was non-nuclear. The source stressed the importance of bearing in mind that though the explosion occured in North Korea - if it was actually a test and not merely a dictator clamoring for attention and influence - the test may have been by or for the Iranians. The source reported that American physicists with access to the information see no sign of nuclear activity, however. My source also mentioned that Japanese sensors picked up no radiation signatures.
This further confirms some of what Bill Gertz reported in the Washington Times this morning.
Posted at 4:35 PM

SAO,

This particular article is quoted numerous times in the article linked too above.

You could find it, if you actually bothered to read them. Since you didn't, the key passages are below for you.

North Korea's plutonium pile attracts Iran

The Sunday Times - January 29, 2006 - Michael Sheridan, Beijing

The drab compound that houses the Iranian embassy in Pyongyang is the focus of intense scrutiny by diplomats and intelligence services who believe that North Korea is negotiating to sell the Iranians plutonium from its newly enlarged stockpile - a sale that would hand Tehran a rapid route to the atomic bomb.
It would confound the international campaign to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions by restricting its ability to make bombs through the alternative method of enriching uranium.

The risk is viewed with such gravity in Washington that the United States has launched a concerted diplomatic and covert effort to prevent it, according to diplomats based in Pyongyang and Beijing.

The belief that Iran and North Korea are talking about plutonium stems from a recently reported offer of oil and gas from Tehran in exchange for nuclear technology ... "

Further down the article mentions:

"The Americans were aghast to learn last year that while engaging in disarmament talks, North Korea had made enough plutonium to amass a stockpile of about 43 kilograms, perhaps as much as 53kg. For the first time since the nuclear crisis began in 1994 it has sufficient fissile material to sell some to its ally while retaining enough for its own purposes. Plutonium is the element used to fuel the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki in 1945. Between 7kg and 9kg are needed for a weapon. According to Siegfried Hecker, the eminent American nuclear scientist, officials in North Korea intend to restart a reactor that will produce 60kg a year."