Yesterday, North Korea, against the will of the rest of the world, tested a nuclear bomb. This is the second time in three years that NK has gone against the UN and tested a nuclear weapon. Even China, their biggest ally said, "The Chinese government expresses firm opposition to this". They seem to think that the international world will just sit back and wait until they have the technology to launch intercontinental missiles. For right now though, i agree with them, not with what they did, but how the UN is doing nothing. They can sanction them, send them mean letters, and condemn them, but it doesnt change anything. They will still do it. It reminds me in a sense of Hitler, Europe got mad and said don't do it, but he just laughed.
In April NK sent out a statement saying that if any nation attempts to sanction their attempts at a nuke, they will consider it a declaration of war and respond in such. But what NK doesnt seem to realize is that they are alone in their crazy rants, they dont have an ally that will back them in the event of a war.
The scary thing about this is that NK is getting closer to perfecting their nukes/missles. In 2006 their nuke exploded with less than 1 kiliton of force. This one though exploded in the range of 10-20 kilitons, about the size of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Their missiles are also getting better, their recent missile made it half way across the pacific before failing.
What do you think needs to be done about NK? Is war inevitable?
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