Indiscriminate would be nuclear weapons on cities. This mission’s ultimate goal was to prevent NK doing that.

If you could stop NK doing that, would you pull the trigger? Would you make a targeted kill of a person who compromised that mission by discovering it?

No? I don't think this is the trap you think it is.

Maybe it's not, but that's the point: trying to understand what it is from the point of view of people who did it.