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Yesterday, North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, announced that he believed his country would no longer want wage wars.This was, he said, because the north’s vast arsenal of nuclear weapons ensured its safety.In a speech recorded through the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim said, “Thanks to our nuclear deterring of reliable and effective self-defense, there will be no more war on this earth, and the security and long term of our country will have confidence forever.”
Admission took place on the 67th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War.
Kim said nuclear weapons would allow North Korea to protect itself “against all the tension and military threats of the imperialists and hostile forces.”
For years, North Korea has had its quest for nuclear weapons as purely defensive.
Still, some experts say the weapons will embolden Pyongyang and allow Kim to adopt a more hostile foreign policy.
This is true, for many, given the tendency of the North to move from a friendly force to a belligerent force.
Last month, Pyongyang ordered the explosion of a joint link with South Korea on the border with the city of Kaesong, one of the oldest settlements in the North.
This came when tensions intensified after activists in South Korea introduced 500,000 balloons with anti-Kim leaflets in the North.
Soon, however, after taking into account the “current situation,” Kim reduced his army action plans.
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Despite the financial collapse of tensions, experts had warned in the past that any war with the North would be completely devastating.
In his 2018 Vox report, journalist Yochi Dreazen spoke to several North Korean experts and military members who had dealt with the dictatorship.
In one case, it shows how many others admit that a war with Kim would require more labor than in wars like Iraq or Afghanistan.
He explained: “Estimates of the exact number of U.S. infantrymen participating in a broadly northward thrust range, but existing and previous army planners would constantly require far more forces than those involved in the invasions of Iraq or Afghanistan.
In addition, a 2016 South Korean white paper stated that the United States would deploy 690,000 floor troops to South Korea if war broke out.
Bruce Bennett, a principal investigator for the RAND Corporation who has spent decades reading North Korea and the Kim family, told Dreazen that he thought the United States would send at least 200,000 troops to North Korea.
In this regard, Dreazen said, “By comparison, there would be more troops than the United States had in Iraq or Afghanistan at the height of those two long wars.”
Many Kims would be more than willing to use their vast arsenal of nuclear weapons on the occasion of the war.
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This would result in massive bloodshed on never-before-notice scales.
In 2017, writing in Foreing Policy, Jeffrey Lewis, a weapons expert at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies, warned that Northern Army training left “little doubt” about the dictatorship’s nuclear intentions.
He wrote: “However, what is concerned about the situation is how the war plans of North Korea, South Korea, and the United States can simply interact.
“North Korean army training leaves no doubt that Pyongyang plans to use a series of nuclear weapons opposed to U.S. forces in Japan and South Korea to stop an invasion.
“In fact, the word used in North Korea’s official statements is “repel”.
“North Korean defectors have said the country’s leaders hoped that by causing great losses and destruction at the start of a conflict, they could simply force the United States and South Korea to withdraw from their invasion.”
Lewis continues to talk about how America would be naive to think that Kim would not consider involving his country in a “suicidal” nuclear war.
He continued: “While US officials boast that Kim would commit suicide by ordering the large-scale use of non-transparent weapons, it is transparent that a traditional defense did not paint Saddam Hussein or Muammar al-Gaddafi when faced with an American attack. . power.
“It’s suicide. Of course, that’s where those North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles come in: to prevent Trump from doing something unfortunate after Kim Jong Un wipes out Seoul and Tokyo.”