posed a great danger to south korea and regions in japan for a number of years. they have a number of weapons pointed directly at south korea. they could kill thousands quickly if a military fight were to break out. they could fire a missile with a warhead fire it here in tokyo. whether it could be shot down effectively hashas yet to be determined. and north korea has not yet done that. they have not used these conventional weapons. even at times a very conventional weapon. the reason they have not done this is they re not designed because they want to attack the united states and south korea and japan. they are designed to prevent them from being attacked. they re to keep the regime firmly in control and they believe this nuclear tee ternt is their key to stability and their key to eventually sit at the diplomatic table around the world. so just because they con diktded
union had, and it is not ideologically opposed in the same way it was during the cold war to the west and the united states. but, you know, you re right. donald trump has been going on about this for a while throughout his campaign as well, how the united states needs to further modernize its arsenal of nuclear weapons. what the russian concern is, is that as anti-ballistic missile defenses are finalized and are improved on the part of nato and the united states in particular, that can have an impact on its own nuclear deterrence. even though the united states and nato insist that their anti-ballistic missile defenses are not aimed at russia, that s not something that s ever been fully accepted by moscow. they believe at a future point those anti-missile defenses could be turned on russia s nuclear tee ternt. so they want to make sure that their nuclear deterrent, which is the center piece of russia s military power, is not neutralized by these other defenses and can avoid missile