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NK's leader is known to be more than a bit kooky.
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Of course, that's why I replied "that's a rhetorical question right?", as anyone who's been mindful of the news from that region would know better than to ask
if the leaders of Norks would be kooky enough to launch nukes.
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IIRC standard US policy is pretty simple: any large scale use of chemical or biological weapons, or any use of nuclear weapons, gets a nuclear response.
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As I've said before, the US would most certainly retaliate should it ever come under nuclear attack from North Korea, but to strike it down with nukes is just not feasable; the Korean Peninsula is home to 70 million people, more or less, all of whom are looking forward to eventual reunification, if not an immediate reunification. Radiating the northern half won't help that cause very much. Not to mention that Seoul, the capital of South Korea and home to more than 10 million people is only about 110 miles away from Pyongyang, and would most certainly be in the fallout range of any attack on Pyongyang. South Korea is also home to 37000 US troops; many of them around the DMZ and Seoul. Dropping a nuke on the norks and irradiating them along with many South Korean civilians, citizens of a (more or less) pro-US nation would be insane. Dropping a nuke further north won't do any better; fallout from those bombs would most likely reach China or Russia. Any bomb would almost certainly spread radioactive fallout on the Sea of Japan or the Yellow sea, furthering the risk of turning China into a true enemy and/or Japan into an Anti-US nation. Dropping a nuke on the norks would be akin to dropping a nuke on the Syrians to save the Israelites, or on Serbia while trying to conserve the balkans.
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An attack with chemicals in a Japanease subway- basiclly the best possible enviroment for such an attack, since its enclosed and has a ventilation system to spread the cheicals for you- only killed about 10 people.
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The attack was made by civilians who actually bumbled the attack, where only a few of the homemade pockets of sarin were released and spread successfully. Should a military ever undertake such an attack, with soldiers trained in releasing chemical agents to their most effectiveness, with a more potent form of sarin or any other agent, and with more stockpiles of the agent used befitting any military-style attack, the effects and the death toll would have been far greater.