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Comparison Of Kim Jong-Un And North Korea

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The Korean Central News Agency stated, “DPRK’s access to H-bomb of justice..is the legitimate right of a sovereign state.” Since the mid-2000’s North Korea has been testing different nuclear weapons in hopes to reach the United States to defeat them in the psychological war. Kim Jong-un and North Korea insist on building nuclear arsenal for the objectives of legitimation, deterrence, and coercion.
The mass production of lethal weapons, missiles, and nuclear weapons have become standard in the North Korean society. Jonathan D. Pollack said, “Kim Jong-un has tied the fate of the North Korean system to the possession of the world’s most lethal weapons.”Kim Jong-un wants has implemented nuclear weapons and long-range missiles in the North Korean culture to achieve absolute power over the nation. The development of intercontinental missiles places North Korea on par among the world’s major nuclear powers. “..he has justified highly skewed internal priorities to his belief in a deeply malign external environment, but he has taken these priorities much farther than his father or grandfather” Pollack said. …show more content…

Pollock stated, “..North Korea has repeatedly argued that without nuclear weapons it would be vulnerable to US decapitation and regime change akin to the fate of Saddam Hussein..” Since the manufacturing of lethal weapons has increased dramatically in the recent year's countries fear what North Korea is capable of doing.This imposes fear among their own citizens and other neighboring countries. “In a deeper psychological sense, Kim seems to regard nuclear weapons as the regime's ultimate form of protection, guaranteeing its survival in a highly malign world” (Pollock). North Korea desires deterrence to protect their country from this harmful world. Kim Jong-un desires deterrence within North Korea because he gains more power and feels protected from

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