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Everybody's interest is that North Korea should not be aggressively pilloried for its less than full cooperation with the recent inspection of its nuclear plants; the survival of the Non-Proliferation Treaty is more important.
Physical models of phenomena such as muscle movement continue to be elaborated, but their relevance to the real world will be clearer only when the structure of the molecules concerned is better known.