North Korea also posed "a medium-term threat, should it collapse, to China", she said.
Despite everything, foreign donor governments are nonetheless determined that the coalition should not collapse entirely.
Milandred lives in Oklahoma and, should society collapse around him, he is well placed to flourish.
Schools built by the state are supposed to be very secure – they should not collapse.
Should it collapse, the Chinese suspect, South Korea (and its American allies) will move in, perhaps up to China's border.
He wears his dog tags constantly, because they carry vital information should he collapse somewhere: O positive blood type, Roman Catholic.
Or if Iraq, or the whole Arab world, should simply collapse into chaos and then turn on America in its humiliation and rage?
Should it collapse, China, fearing the abrupt arrival of a unified Korea on its borders that is America's ally and stuffed with American armour, might intervene.
"North Korea poses an immediate threat to the region around it, particularly to South Korea and Japan, and a medium-term threat, should it collapse, to China," Clinton said.
With Article 8 removed, the government argued, the Article 14 claim should also collapse since Article 14 has no independent existence.
Should iSoft collapse into administration and alternative software suppliers be appointed, it could set back NPfIT by more than a year.
