In a congratulatory message to Kim Jong Un for the founding anniversary of North Korea's ruling party, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he intends to deepen relations with Pyongyang, North Korean state media reported on Saturday.
thats fair. its at least a reasonable sort of argument for the dprk curtailing military spending to some extent now that their missile program has succeeded, since they both have nukes and can rely on china (presumably)
dunno that the dprk military folks would agree, but uh..
Sino-American tensions are good for DPRK because it has laid bare that China needs to take the west as a more serious immediate threat, and thus incentivizes China to strengthen ties with DPRK.
I definitely agree with that, they shouldn't really need much of a conventional military at this point since the only scenario where they'll be able to defend themselves is by saying "Go away or I'll drop the nukes" anyway, so what does the rest of the military really matter?
thats fair. its at least a reasonable sort of argument for the dprk curtailing military spending to some extent now that their missile program has succeeded, since they both have nukes and can rely on china (presumably)
dunno that the dprk military folks would agree, but uh..
Sino-American tensions are good for DPRK because it has laid bare that China needs to take the west as a more serious immediate threat, and thus incentivizes China to strengthen ties with DPRK.
for sure.
would be nice if american aggression could just not tho
I definitely agree with that, they shouldn't really need much of a conventional military at this point since the only scenario where they'll be able to defend themselves is by saying "Go away or I'll drop the nukes" anyway, so what does the rest of the military really matter?
tbf thats kind of true of most every military that either has nukes or military allies with nukes, which at this point is... everyone?.. and yet...
so idk, not holding my breath on that