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

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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    22 hours ago

    I get paid a lot to be right and say it in ways powerful idiots understand.

    Not having to be polite is a relief valve, but it doesn’t mean the information is incorrect.

    The smallest “tactical nuke” is orders of magnitude bigger than what was used in Japan and even at their lowest settings would snowball into environmental catastrophe.

    You can’t contain an atomic blast. Even what’s left is irradiated and now nuclear waste. Especially any kind of metal, which is probably going to be whatever you nuke.

    Being smaller just means idiots are more likely to use them.

        • crystalmerchant@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          17 hours ago

          Well when an internet rando tells me how rich and influential they are then A) I immediately consider them super duper credible and serious, and B) I am simply desperate to know rich they are because oh my gosh they must be so glamorous

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 hours ago

            when an internet rando tells me

            I stopped replying to you after the peace sign…

            Then that now banned account replied to me, and I replied back

            Is that banned account also you and you just switch between them?

            Or do you think every reply to any comment on here is actually to you?

            Even hours later, and to a different account…

            The only way this makes sense, is you switched accounts when I stopped replying, and then had to go to the original once your second was banned.