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I hope you realize that people really don't like the idea that NK has the ability to drop a nuclear payload on them. They've had to put up with three generations of NK threatening aggressive actions and now, it's something tangible. It's something that MUST be taken seriously. There's a reason that not even China or Russia wanted NK to become nuclear capable - it complicates matters extraordinarily.
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With enough of a smattering elsewhere (Such as Japan for hosting US airforce bases and New Zealand for actually following UN sanctions among others, etc.) that I doubt anyone is particularly happy about their nuclear strike capabilities. It's to a point where Russia has straight out told NK that they really need to stop threatening to nuke people, because it makes them a viable target. China's also getting pretty fed up with their behavior. I really don't know if them having long range nuclear strike capability is defensible from the Russian/Chinese standpoint at this juncture. They urged discussion, and then conceded sanctions, then conceded significantly more severe sanctions. . . And now we have this. Talks have failed. Sanctions have failed. North Korea is throwing its' weight around threatening to nuke the people it hates. This is a problem for China, because the strategy they've proposed all of this time has largely failed. Anything they do, even if that anything is inaction, has huge implications at this point.
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[–] noblefool ago
I hope you realize that people really don't like the idea that NK has the ability to drop a nuclear payload on them. They've had to put up with three generations of NK threatening aggressive actions and now, it's something tangible. It's something that MUST be taken seriously. There's a reason that not even China or Russia wanted NK to become nuclear capable - it complicates matters extraordinarily.
[–] Spectral ago (edited ago)
NK has mainly only threatened the US and south korea (for alliance with the US).
[–] noblefool ago
With enough of a smattering elsewhere (Such as Japan for hosting US airforce bases and New Zealand for actually following UN sanctions among others, etc.) that I doubt anyone is particularly happy about their nuclear strike capabilities. It's to a point where Russia has straight out told NK that they really need to stop threatening to nuke people, because it makes them a viable target. China's also getting pretty fed up with their behavior. I really don't know if them having long range nuclear strike capability is defensible from the Russian/Chinese standpoint at this juncture. They urged discussion, and then conceded sanctions, then conceded significantly more severe sanctions. . . And now we have this. Talks have failed. Sanctions have failed. North Korea is throwing its' weight around threatening to nuke the people it hates. This is a problem for China, because the strategy they've proposed all of this time has largely failed. Anything they do, even if that anything is inaction, has huge implications at this point.