As speculation mounts that Kim Jong-un and Trump could meet this month, analysts say Pyongyang will continue to see nuclear weapons as a matter of survival
North Korea’s launch last week of a missile from a naval destroyer elicited an uncharacteristically prosaic analysis from the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un. The launch was proof, he said, that arming ships with nuclear weapons was “making satisfactory progress”.
But the test, and Kim’s mildly upbeat appraisal, were designed to reverberate well beyond the deck of the 5,000-tonne destroyer-class vessel the Choe Hyon – the biggest warship in the North Korean fleet.
His pointed reference to nuclear weapons was made as the US and Israel continued their air bombardment of Iran – a regime Donald Trump had warned, without offering evidence, was only weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.
North Korea doesn’t understand that you must have something worth taking like oil before you need to build nukes to protect it
Bruh they’re protecting communism /s
But for real, North Korean national identity exists because the USA invaded Korea.
What they understand is that anti-USA sentiment is the only thing keeping their citizens from forming a class conciousness.
The US slaughtered 20% of the country’s people. “Invasion” is putting it lightly.
oh fuck off. My point was that North korea exists as a result of the korean war. As such they don’t need to have oil to be justified in worry about a US invasion.
They do.
Not oil but minerals.
The United States dropped 635,000 tons of bombs and 32,557 tons of napalm in North Korea, more than what was spent on the entire Pacific Theater of WW2.
While I don’t doubt the US would drop that many bombs just to cause suffering, I don’t think it adds up financially if they didn’t want something.