MicroWaveMar 10

Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security

https://lemmy.world/post/44072782

Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security - Lemmy.World

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.

Show threadnjm1314Mar 10
That’s the overwhelming message of the 20th and 21st centuries. If you don’t have nukes then the US or Russia is gonna mess with you. Get nukes.
Show threadNotMyOldRedditNameMar 10
Secretly get nukes.
Show threadSoggyMar 10
All but impossible, the major players keep an eye on all the things necessary for nuclear weapons.
Show threadCanadaPlusMar 11

Actually, Canada got in on the ground floor and we have everything we’d need. They say we’re about two months out at any given time, going the plutonium route.

Then again, we’re pretty used to the luxuries of not being an isolated pariah state.

Show thread✺roguetrick✺
You guys aren’t quite as turnkey as, say, Japan. They’ve got reprocessing and rocket production from JAXA and really would have to just put together an implosion device.
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Show threadCanadaPlusMar 11

TIL.

Delivery would be an issue for sure. Then again, if the potential target is America “guys on quads” would work. If the target isn’t America, America will do it for us. Edit: Because they own the Western hemisphere, and we’re their bitch.

Show threadSoggyMar 11
As an American I sincerely hope that’s true, though I’d wager most of the people within “guys on quads” distance are pretty sympathetic to the effects our federal government is having on old allies.
Show threadCanadaPlusMar 12

Uh, so other side of the border from me is red state Montana. Anyway, I think the idea is you load it onto something else once it’s in and take it to an actual target. It’s just a long border that’s hard to seal perfectly.

If there’s a note of disbelief in there, I’d like to point out America has nukes and uses them as a deterrent the same way. Like, whether proliferation is morally justified, of if we should just accept our fate in that scenario, is a serious question we should ask, but you don’t really have a moral highground about it.

Obviously I’m not saying killing people is cool, and we know that 2/3 of Americans didn’t ask for any of this.