Some Valium from Fareed Zakaria

The article Iran is weak and getting weaker is freely dispensing the above mentioned tranquilizer. I even started to nod off peacefully towards its end. Until this question that its author probably considers rhetoric:

But do we think of North Korea as strong and on the rise because it has a few crude nuclear devices?

Sorry, Mr Zakaria, but I have to answer "yes" even though being almost fully asleep.

OK?