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The world has already been nuked by a virus, but in case you still care about manmade bombs:
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Suzanne not the only person pointing this out:
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 4:01pm
NK is very weak so they put on a show of strength. If NK launched all it's nuclear weapons it would barely make a dent in the world population and one bomb on NK will take out the whole country. Iran is strong despite all the sanctions and doesn't need to put on a show of strength.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 4:11pm
well put analysis that also explains Pompeo's focus, like it or not
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 4:17pm
NK's whole purpose in developing a nuclear threat is to become a world player. So when no one is paying much attention to them they have to make noise demonstrating the genuine threat they can be. Their nuclear capability and geographic position and some reasonably able delivery systems, if and when they get them, coupled with their leader playing Nixon's mad man game, but maybe for real, make them a genuine threat, IMO. If they were to launch all their nukes I would expect, ultimately, a great deal of death.
by A Guy Called LULU on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 4:43pm
It would be suicide. If NK decide to commit suicide they could take tens maybe even hundreds of millions with them. A great deal of death but minor in the context of a 7 billion world population. And that assumes a reasonably able delivery system which I doubt they have. Since we're going through covid I'm been looking at numbers, 5% of the world population died of the Spanish flu in 1918. We barely remember it and that was just 100 years ago.It's so minor in our minds that the anti vax movement keeps growing and growing. NK cannot kill that percentage of the world population even if every one of their bombs is a successful launch. The black plague killed 30 to 50% of Europe's population. Now that would be something that would be significant and remembered for a couple of centuries
eta: NK is developing nuclear weapons to blackmail the rich countries for money. It doesn't make them a world player in the slightest.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 5:14pm
NK is developing nuclear weapons to blackmail the rich countries for money. It doesn't make them a world player in the slightest.
If NK is able to blackmail rich countries I would call that one example of being a world player. If the Kim regime is able to maintain power, in spite of the U.S. wanting it gone real bad, then NK's nuclear program is successful in that part of its intent. No sane person who believes the lives of only some tens of millions of people worth considering, even if all those people are *others*, would attack NK militarily and it would be crazy to think NK will not continue to develop their capabilities making it harder in the future and more of a threat whenever it comes to that. The U.S. will ultimately have to destroy NK's regime and its military capability or diplomatically offer them a good enough deal that they give up their nukes or simply learn to live with NK as a nuclear power. All of which which makes NK a world player, IMO.
by A Guy Called LULU on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 6:21pm
When the vast majority of countries don't even consider NK in 99.9% of the decisions they make about how the world works NK isn't a world player. The only time the world considers NK is when they make decisions about NK, and many of them make decisions to punish them with sanctions.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 6:35pm
OK
by A Guy Called LULU on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 6:30pm
from 2010 Foreign Policy article.
I saw Clinton do this, it was on Larry King Live on CNN during one or other scares in Bush's first term. He didn't say "nuclear weapons," he said "missiles" That's an important distinction.. It was one of his fabulous wonk splainers in vox populi lingo, so impressive my jaw dropped. He just explained it so simply something like--you see missiles is their only cash crop, it's the way they get money to feed their people, so you just play that game, that they don't want to shoot them off, they want to both sell them and use their presence to barter other things at diplomatic tables. I could imagine everyone who watched just stopped worrying about the crisis then and there. He was so good at that sort of thing.
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 8:19pm