It's not clear to me why it's important that Israel never joined the NPT regime. For example: North Korea was never found in violation of the NPT regime. The

It's not clear to me why it's important that Israel never joined the NPT regime. For example: North Korea was never found in violation of the NPT regime. The NPT has a specific procedure for countries to withdraw from the treaty, and North Korea followed the procedure correctly. Note that I'm not saying this withdrawl was good, only that they never violated the NPT in the same way that Israel never violated the NPT.