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Originally Posted by Deepflow
How about: They created a nuclear weapon not to use it, but as a deterrent. You know, the same reason that everyone else who has nuclear weapons has them for.
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Well youre free to make that baseless assumption if you want, but I don't think it matters anyway; even allowing NK to have a deterrant is an extremely bad idea, and justifies action in itself.
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The main point is that there's no reason to assume that they will use it, simply because of how utterly stupid it would be.
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Who knows what theyll do with it, but why even take that risk when it can be avoided? With nuclear weapons NK will have a pretty big bargaining chip that will to some extent allow it to do whatever it likes, and given their internal politics, this isnt likely to end well. You also have to look at other possibilities, like their selling weapons to terrorist organisations, or threatening to use them if foreign aid is stopped and the regime starts to collapse. Letting highly unstable dictatorships have nuclear weapons doesnt sound like a very clever long term strategy.