While I am highly skeptical that the North Korean conspiracy has anything to it, I really like the creativity. Truth is often stranger than fiction, so it's worthwhile for the conspiracy folks to keep working.
Does anybody know why a nuke would be an option for shutting off the flow of oil? Is the intense heat supposed to turn enough of the sea floor at the point of the leak into glass to create a seal over the leak? Is the shockwave of the detonation (which will be considerable, given the ability of water to transmit energy) supposed to collapse the walls around the leak, thereby stoppering it? I'm terribly interested to know the details.
If we suppose that a nuke is the best option for sealing the leak, and if we believe that the use of a nuke for this purpose presents the US with an impossible diplomaic situation (all nations potentially faced with similar problems, including Iran, deserve to have nukes), perhaps the best solution is alos diplomatic. We ask another nuclear power to sell us a nuke for the express purpose of sealing the breach. Perhaps the nuke is deployed under the full observation of the UN agency responsible for nukes, thereby creating a precedent that a nation in need of a nuke for this kind of purpose can go to a nuclear power to get the nuke it needs and that the use of the nuke must conform to international standards. This would take the steam out of any claims by Iran that it should have its own nukes for the purpose of responding to similar crises off the Iranian coast.
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