North Korean and US Nuclear Threats: Discerning Signals from Noise 北朝鮮と米国による核の脅し—発信されるシグナルとノイズの区別

This was followed shortly by a March 7 2013 declaration that North Korean forces could “carry out preemptive nuclear strikes on the strongholds of the aggressors.” It was another attempt to assert that the North is a nuclear weapons state on equal footing with the United States, China, and Russia – a status that can only be accorded via the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and is therefore unattainable for North Korea. Run-up to B52 and B2 Deployments