North Korea has a wide open pathway for robust mistle testing without any fear of consequence. It's not like russia is going to do anything to stop them, or even china. They had reasons to test beyond this russia ukraine crisis. But the timing is right. Okeso, north korea is thrilled by the distraction. Of course, watching this crisis, kinjon can only calculate that if ukraine still had nuclear weapons, russia would not have dared to attack it. Rigt i think this will just make him all the more determined to hold on to and expand his arsenal of nuclear weapons.
With its neighbor distracted by domestic culture wars, North Korea is making new moves.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.
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