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That's karma biting you in the ass for using more parentheses.

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Where did you get that table

Troll harder. North Korea is the real deal Ninteen-Eighty-Four. I know it's hard to accept that such insane malevolence could exist in the world but it does. Similar regimes and societies existed in Nazi Germany and Soviet Union/Iron Curtain. They still exist in central and eastern Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. I can't say yet for certain but places in eastern Europe may also still exist under totalitarian rule.

The Cult of Personality in N.Korea is very real. The crumbling infrastructure, collapsed economy, and merciless isolation and indoctrination are real. The parents eating their children out of starvation are real. The West certainly has its demons, but they still don't compare to the actual Hells On Earth that do exist on this planet, including North Korea.

North Korea is protecting itself. Or more accurately, North Korea's government is protecting itself. But not from 'our corrupt system'. They more than enough corruption amongst themselves as it is. No, they're protecting their place as overlords over an enslaved people. The West at least pacifies their populations with bread and circuses, not truncheons. If by tomorrow you haven't been disappeared for your criticisms of western regimes, you'll understand what I'm talking about.

Also, not everyone has nukes. The US, UK, France, Russia, Isreal, Pakistan, India, China, and North Korea are the ones with nukes. And Iran is developing infrastructure that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, though they may not actually have any yet.

I know you think you're trying to be sceptical, wise, etc. But you're substituting one set of assumptions and delusions for another, which are equally false. And please don't shift the goal posts. You said yourself that you believed the "North Koreans with nukes" was Western propaganda and compared it to Iraq's supposed arsenal of WOMDs (which was propaganda used to justify an illegal invasion).

And no, North Korea will never use a nuclear weapon offensively. That would be suicide as every other nation in the world would throw off the gloves the moment that happened and basically blast the north half of the peninsula into the sea. But the nukes aren't meant for that. They're North Korea's insurance policy. North Korea can't be invaded while their nukes are still operational, even if they can't actually aim the things (nukes don't need precision aiming). They can't be counter-attacked either. If North Korea marches south, any attempt to push back into North Korea's borders will run the risk of a nuclear retaliation. They've already tested bombs on their own soil and regularly display a callous disregard for the lives of their citizens after all.

I'm sure Bill would be glad to hear that.

One wonders if South Korea's love of Starcraft is actually secretly encouraged by their government as a sort of strategic preparation of a possible North Korean attack.

"They're coming under the DMZ, gentlemen. But do not worry, we know how to handle this. Bunkers and siege tanks."

Id let them ladies invade my country any day.

Problem with that assumption though is Chernobyl was a constant contamination at ground level that seeped into water tables, the land surrounding the site, the food chain and continues to contaminate still. A nuke would be set to air-burst to cause significantly more damage then a ground detonation. An air-burst also has the benefit of a lot less contamination/fallout even if the actually dosage of radiation is the same. Also a tactical nuke vs say, Tzar bomba produce two different yields and fallout patterns. Weather patterns also play a roll in fallout patterns though, though it is not inconceivable that China might be affected, although the vast majority of NK's armaments are along the 38th parallel.

Looking into it, SK and Japan would be the ones at risk for fallout, not China or Russia due to the south/east direction of their wind pattern. Global wind patterns. With that in mind, while not optimal, I would think they would prefer some minor fallout compared to being nuked themselves by NK.