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.
Ya and I don’t think getting every country a nuke is realistic. There’s a reason why we started disarming the nukes and getting rid of them. And like the reason is now they are not OK to have around unstable government. The US is an unstable government with the most advanced nukes in the world. And more of them than most countries combined. It’s just not really a sane move to be trying to arm yourself with weapons of mass destruction in the face of an unstable country willing to use them.
You’ll never build enough nukes before we come bomb you for trying to build nukes you know? That’s what’s happening in Iran. You screech about getting a nuke and bombing America for 30 years and you kind of don’t get any sympathy when the insane government comes to bomb your ass. These people would love to nuke Iran they just know they couldn’t survive it poltivally yet…
Maybe the lesson to be learned is that publicly calling for a nuclear weapon to use against a nuclear power is probably not a good political stance. You should try to keep it hush-hush.