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Intensifying arms race between the two Koreas, reenacting the Reagan regime’s ‘nuclear chick cold war’

김종찬안보 2023. 1. 1. 17:47
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The two Koreas are reenacting the “nuclear chick cold war” in the early 1980s under the Reagan regime of the Republican Party, showing an extreme arms race system.
In response to North Korea’s continuous ballistic missile launches, the Indo-Pacific Command of the Biden Democratic Party’s administration made an unusual statement saying that it “assessed that there was no immediate threat to allies.”
North Korean state media reported on the 1st that Kim Jong-un had ordered an "exponential" expansion of the country's nuclear arsenal, the development of more powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles and the launch of its first spy satellite.
The Associated Press said, "Kim's move is consistent with the broader direction of his nuclear weapons program, as he has repeatedly promised to increase both the quality and quantity of his arsenal to counter what he calls US hostility." The desire to produce more nuclear weapons and new weapons systems reflects a desire to consolidate future bargaining power as the country heads toward prolonged tensions with the United States and its allies.”
"We sternly warn that if North Korea attempts to use nuclear weapons, the Kim Jong-un regime will face an end," the South Korean Ministry of National Defense said in an announcement on the Ministry of National Defense's Position on the Announcement of the Results of the Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea on the 1st. We will deter and respond to North Korea's nuclear and missile threats by substantially improving and dramatically strengthening the Korean three-axis system."
The South Korean military announced on the 30th of last month that it successfully test-launched a space launch vehicle with a solid fuel propulsion engine at an altitude of 450 km from the Anheung Proving Ground in South Chungcheong Province to the West Sea.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff announced on the 31st that North Korea had detected three short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) launched into the East Sea from the area of Junghwa County, North Hwanghae Province.
“We are aware of North Korea’s ballistic missile launch and are in close consultation with our allies and partners,” the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement. We assessed that this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory, or to our allies." It illustrates the instability caused by weapons of destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile programs.”
"Chairman Kim's remarks at the Labor Party meeting read like a list of ambitious, but possibly achievable, New Year's resolutions," said Kim Soo, a security analyst at Conservative Land Corporation. It's ambitious in that it's chosen, but it also suggests Kim Jong-un's confidence," he told the AP.
Rand Corporation led the strategy of breaking the backbone of the socialist economic system of the Soviet Union, whose productivity had deteriorated due to extreme arms build-up by unwillingness to commit nuclear war under the Reagan regime.
"In his 2018 New Year's address, (Chairman Kim) first ordered mass production of warheads and ballistic missiles, and next year he is doubling the target for quantitative expansion," said Ankit Panda, an analyst at the Carnegie Peace Foundation. It appears to be related to the propulsion system and "satellite launch should happen in April," he told The Associated Press.
In his New Year's address on the 1st, President Yoon Seok-yeol said, "North Korea will continue its nuclear and missile provocations, and the South Korean military must respond with clear retaliation."
'Newsis' said, "According to Chosun Central TV on the 1st, Chairman Kim defined the South as 'our clear enemy without a doubt' in the report of the 8th 6th plenary meeting from the 26th to the 31st of last month." As the chairman himself has declared that he will raise the level of provocations against South Korea, the possibility of provocations in local warfare along with various nuclear tests is predicted.”
Jeong Seong-jang, director of the North Korean Studies Center at the Sejong Institute, said, "North Korea is expected to carry out its seventh nuclear test on January 8 at the earliest, before Kim Jong-un's birthday on February 8, at the latest, before the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Army on February 8, or before Kim Jong-il's birthday on February 16." “The technical need for the 7th nuclear test is not so great right now,” said Hong Min, director of the North Korea Research Department at the Institute for National Unification. Tactical nuclear weapons, strategic nuclear delivery means, reconnaissance satellites, SLBMs, and unmanned aerial vehicles are the immediate means of responding to the ROK-US extended deterrence and the effectiveness of increasing deterrence and negotiating power against the United States,” he said on the day.
Since 1980, when the East-West Cold War intensified, the hardline conservative regime in the United States strengthened the threat of nuclear war through the media and maximized arms buildup, and strategic groups such as Land Corporation carried out a strategy of 'breaking the spine of the socialist economic system by accelerating arms buildup'. .<Refer to U.S. Disruption Strategy and Korea's Media Manipulation, 1993>
The US media subsequently tracked and reported on the secret strategy, dubbing it “nuclear chick play,” and disarmament talks for nuclear war deterrence intensified in the late 1980s.

Soviet perestroika absorbed communist assets into the national system due to military pressure, and the dissolution of the federation and the reconstruction of socialism through elections showed an overproduction economic crisis confrontation in the supply-dominant economy of the US Reaganomics. <Refer to the nuclear warfare training in Ukraine and 'diversion' to North Korea's ROK-US joint training, dated October 10, 2022>