At Military Parade Kim Jong-un Vows to Grow Nuclear Capabilities
This could be interpreted to mean that the Kim regime is setting the conditions for yet another nuclear test:
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared a resolve to further strengthen his regime’s nuclear capabilities, as the country showcased a “giant” intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at a military parade earlier this week, according to its state media Tuesday.
Delivering a speech during the event, Kim vowed to boost the country’s nuclear capabilities at the “fastest possible speed” at the nighttime parade to celebrate the 90th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA) held Monday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but the war in Ukraine has further validated to the Kim regime the value of nuclear weapons. You can get away with a lot more bad behavior when you have a credible nuclear deterrent.
The same people who pushed for unilateral nuclear disarmament are the ones who made the world vulnerable to Russia, China, and Iran.
And now they want us to attack Russia over Ukraine. While buying energy from Russia.
Follow the money.
Had Trump not listened to the warmongering Bolton and agreed to the deal in Hanoi then we probably wouldn’t be in this mess right now.
But Bolton who was one of the architects of the unnecessary Iraq War and was more obsessed with turning North Korea into another Libya instead of pursuing a realistic solution, pushed for a Libyan type solution which North Korea was loath to accept turing the Hanoi summit into a fiasco.
By agreeing to a partial lifting of sanctions in exchange for getting rid of Yongbyon, the North Koreans might have realized that making more deals to get rid of their nuclear capability in exchange for security guarantees and lifting of sanctions is in their best interests and who knows maybe we would have gotten a much more peaceful Korean peninsula as a result.
But, we will never know, won’t we?