North Korea expands nuclear weapons programme
Source: BBC
North Korea's parliament has endorsed plans to give nuclear weapons greater prominence in the country's defences.
The move came a day after the ruling Workers' Party called for nuclear forces to be "expanded and beefed up qualitatively and quantitatively".
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The law reads that the country's nuclear weapons are a "means of defence" and serve the purpose of "dealing deadly retaliatory blows at the strongholds of aggression until the world is denuclearised".
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"The DPRK (North Korea)'s possession of nuclear weapons should be fixed by law and the nuclear armed forces should be expanded and beefed up qualitatively and quantitatively," a KCNA report on the meeting said.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21995224
Blandocyte
(1,231 posts)Sigh.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)If they spend less on other military expenditures they migh actually save some money and be able to put it back into their country.
Heres to wishful thinking.
Botany
(70,291 posts)..... on the Korean Peninsula. No North Korean aircraft will get off the ground for more than
a few minutes, any artillery that fires will be gone, any troop movement of >50 people will
be taken out, their will be zero communications between the command and control structure and any
North Korean armed forces, the senior leadership in N. Korea will be either be dead or on the
run with in hours of the start of hostilities, any missile launch sites will be gone, the N. Korean
Navy will all be sunk, and China will not have the North's back this time.
Starkiller228
(54 posts)Maybe their nuclear technology will be equal to the United States'..... In the 1960s.
Botany
(70,291 posts)... we had ICBMs, polaris sub launched missiles, H bombs, aircraft carriers,
and all kinds of clever stuff that could have very well killed off the planet's
ecosystem to support humans.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Things may blow over for awhile, but dollars to donuts they'll be back at it again pretty soon.