North Korea’s leader is observing the moves of Russia as it moves towards normalising nuclear threats. As the government has set off more than 40 missile launches this year, while threatening pre-emptive nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul, world leaders say it may be looking at Russia as its inspiration. As Russia is a nuclear-armed member of the UN Security Council, Putin has raised the prospect of using tactical nukes to turn around battleground setbacks in Ukraine. According to the South China Morning Post, such normalisation of nuclear threats has experts like Sung-Yoon Lee, of Tufts University’s Fletcher School of […]
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