That seems disingenuous or ignorant. Ever since WW2 the US has pointed nuclear weapons against these countries and their allies. That was the zeitgeist of the last several decades.
Political boundaries and names might have changed since then, but nuclear weapons didn’t become irrelevant. In fact, those nations have only grown up in the shadows of possible nuclear annihilation by the US.
Especially North Korea, born out of the Korean War which involved all the nations in question against the US which was ready to wipe Korea out of existence just to “contain” communism. Why do you think they are so militaristic and intent on having nuclear deterrents? Their alternative is experiencing genocide once again.
That seems disingenuous or ignorant. Ever since WW2 the US has pointed nuclear weapons against these countries and their allies. That was the zeitgeist of the last several decades.
Political boundaries and names might have changed since then, but nuclear weapons didn’t become irrelevant. In fact, those nations have only grown up in the shadows of possible nuclear annihilation by the US.
Especially North Korea, born out of the Korean War which involved all the nations in question against the US which was ready to wipe Korea out of existence just to “contain” communism. Why do you think they are so militaristic and intent on having nuclear deterrents? Their alternative is experiencing genocide once again.