North Korean leader Kim Jong Un raised eyebrows today with his latest claims about his nation’s military might, claiming the nation has internally produced both atomic bombs and much more powerful hydrogen bombs to defend “the dignity of the nation.”
North Korea has had an on-again, off-again nuclear program and made some efforts toward producing basic atomic weapons, though there is considerable doubt that they are able to miniaturize one into a deliverable form. A hydrogen bomb would be a huge step, if true.
But North Korea has a long history of dubious claims about its military, and expert Daniel Pinkston was quoted in the Washington Post as saying it was “virtually impossible” that the nation has actually managed to produce its own hydrogen bombs.
That Kim made the claim himself, instead of it coming directly from the North Korean military, also adds to doubts about its accuracy, and raises speculation it was more of an off-the-cuff remark aimed at extolling his military achievements as he visited a major military site.
The more I study regarding the whys of Korean Nations breakup, the more I find to dislike first of the WWII leaders who determined the division, and then the decision makers who renegged on the agreement.
Russia that had been a part of original division was neutral until time of conflict breakout.
It favored allowing a vote to see what Koreans wanted; the US and its military did not want that because if a vote had been allowed the Brutal military and Industrialistleadership installed by US would of been voted out of country not just out of office.
Today it is a lot like too ex lovers who went way to far in insulting and deliberately hurting each other, there cannot be a reconcilliation by the North because it cannot directly negotiate with the South as its lover the US speaks for them
A whole world of atrocitys by US and its allies that are far greater than those of Phillipine And Native American Massacres and those in Iraq, all needing to be written by those who suffered under the ” Liberating US and its allies.