When I was a kid, my family lived in the northeastern Chinese province Liaoning that directly boarders NK. Each and every time when there was a missile test, we were also terrified because we're not confident about their technology at all... And since we're just next to each other, a small technical issue might end up destroying our city entirely. Till today I cannot forget watching the news nervously with my grandma many years ago.
That sounds terrifying. I'm still confused how can they claim they have the technology to ruin a specific county when they're having that many technical difficulties.
@@SofijaSofijaSofija Probably because they don't focus on "fixing technical difficulties", but rather "causing as much destruction as possible" (and by that end not caring how the latter might be achieved).
America could have rid the earth of these nuclear terrorist in the 50’s if it weren’t for the Chinese getting involved. That would have never been a problem or worry for you. Oh well. Welcome to the 21st century where there are more than one nuclear terrorist state in the world.
I was stationed in Camp Casey during 2006, and, one day on a road march, I asked Top what we would do if North Korea came over the border. Top stopped the whole formation and explained that all our bases and all our military assets were already dialed into their artillery and rockets, and that our battlefield role was to be a speed bump for North Koreans while The U.S. and South Korea reacted. I never forgot that.
@@orangecat504 I would say that our groups in eastern Europe are a deterrent. It's about proving that we are willing to back up our NATO allies. It also forces ourselves to act if Putin does something. If our troups die in Latvia we're gonna have to do something, and Putin knows that. That will in theory stop Putin from trying anything. Which will lead to no conflict whatsoever. It's like stationing a police officer to stop speeding, or a home alarm to prevent burglars.
I think that completely takes away from how important your job was, along with the active duty SK forces, although it would be very bloody it would be imperative that the active duty personnel close to the border fight tooth and nail, because the south Koreans have mandatory conscription they have a massive base of trained men but would need time to raise reserve units or volunteer units like the Ukrainian TDF, organize them, arm them, and give them training on new weapons, tactics and systems, and US forces outside Korea would need time to get in country especially if they are coming from the mainland US, obviously troops from bases like Japan and Guam could be there in days to weeks but considering how massive the Norths army is there will need to be large quantities of men and equipment brought in from North America, the bulk of it by ship, I would not want to be a soldier on or near the DMZ durring the initial hours or days of a conflict, that being said depending on their actions and depending on how feircly they resist it could save the lives of countless civilians if they are given time to flee, and the less ground given the fewer US and South Korean soldiers would need to die later in the conflict taking that ground back, also the less ground taken the less damage would be done to the south Korean infrastructure and economy and could be the difference between a long road to economic recovery and millions of refugees or a short term recession that wouldn't hamper south Korean long term economic ambitions
My main gripe with this channel is the fact that there is no source list provided in the description, at least having some sort of source list gives magnitudes more credibility
Yes! And every time I find an inaccuracy (which is disappointingly often), it makes it seem much less acceptable if there’s no source- like he’s just made something up!
The US throughout the middle east (and russia in ukraine) basically proves the phrase "Actions speak louder than words" Libya being the most blatant example as to why a country will never give up its nukes from now on.
Honestly I don't understand why people and leaders of a country would ever give up nukes in any scenario There are the most foolproof backup plan and a deterrent and no matter if you are surrounded by friends or enemies, it makes them think twice before doing something stupid
We didn't have the ability of Building a nuke system in libya anyway, so giving up was the smart choice for a stupid decision. But i believe that north Korea wouldn't dare to have it's own nuke without the permission of world's super powers. India and Pakistan+ korea and south Korea+ russia and europe, all of this makes me think that someone wants to keep "the current status" for an actual nuclear war.
@@tylerkoch5255 those nukes in Ukraine were non-operational Soviet era trash. The Budapest agreement was about securing broken and decaying nuclear hazards, not disarmament. They could not have used those nukes even if they wanted to.
Absolutely love how you went into the POV of China to explain why they support NK. Something severely lacking from almost all other sources of news and media these days
Yep. A lot Americans probably think China's happy with NK getting nuclear weapon but it definitely isn't. The chance of an NK missile getting through all the US missile defense and hit LA or NYC accurately is just slim, but Beijing and many big cities in China are within 1000km from NK.
Many people have commented in this channel that threatening to use nuclear weapons is like threatening to flip the table while playing chess, I think this video proves that it’s more like going for an stalemate, no one can do anything because it’d mean to lose
@@MAC0071234 Zugzwang is when you HAVE to make a move that either will make you lose or worsen your position, stalemate is when you simply cannot move. In Zugzwang there’s a winning side, in an stalemate there is not, the position remains the same just like here
I was in Japan during the first missel that went over Japan and I remember the tension. Everyone was like... are we about to go to war with north korea? We found it was a test and not a failed attack a few days later, but man... That sparked a BUNCH of simulations for invasion plans.
Missiles were not fired at Japan. Rockets will mostly fly eastward from the rotation of the earth. Japan is east of NK. Who cares what a US puppet regime think about the development of strategic space defense and space science?
@@toocoolforu Ah yes it sounds so much better to assume they have no idea what they are doing and cant aim a rocket with GPS available for free to anyone. It being an accident makes it even more scary/funny.
Only thing to remember, N. Korea's army is only functional inside N. Korea. Kim Un cannot chance his army outside of N. Korea, not even S. Korea for fear the malnourished army would break like the wind to the nearest buffet. Taking their chances on never returning to N. Korea ever again. It is very difficult for a dictator who publicly executes citizens for listening to the "wrong music" to have such citizens fight and risk their lives for such a person. Especially outside of their country. N. Korea basically is all bark, no bite.
Thats what they want ...they dont go war with south korea or USA ...they make blackmailing forever to tight the guarantee of kim or his successors forever ..hope you understand
@@sheiladikshit5110 Doesn't really matter. North Korea's military is much less equipped and trained than South Korea, and the SOuth would have full US backing. The only thing preventing South Korea from winning at this point is that the north can hold their major cities hostage, first with conventional bombs, and now the Nukes.
You are not wrong but you see the thing is that you dont need good soldiers when you have literal rockets doign all the work for you. Its basicially the same thing when a guy shows up with a gun to a fist fight. Of course NK will never win a war against anyone really, but it doesnt have to as long as it can kill a lot of people b4 getting killed itself. That is enough for all the democrats to not risk doing anything about NK really.... can't blame them tho I myself woudn't want millions of South Koreans die for this.
If I remember correctly North Korea was almost wiped out until China came and entered the war. I think we pushed them back pretty much to the boarder of China; but China thought we were going to invade them next and sent troops over to assist the North Koreans.
Wrong. NK nearly wipe out the superior SK army first. NK PUSH sk all the way to Busan. Then the US military enter and push the NK back to thw Chinese border. That's when china enter and push the US, UN, SK forces passed the 38th. The truce was called and the 38th parallel was agreed as the border.
I think the most daunting task in a war with N. Korea would be going in those bunkers they have. I mean, their bunkers are vast enough to test nuclear explosions. I'd imagine it would be a terrifying feat for any invading army.
@@killrsloth9187 it’s not a great strategy lol, if you’ve already taken control of the ground and air, 10000 men in a bunker are way easier to kill than 10000 men on a battlefield.
U.s couldn't beat the primitive vietcong spear chuckers or afghans with an ak and a rag 😂 they wouldn't dare fight north korea u.s just bullies countries that they think are an easy win and fail at doing that 😂😂
As a South Korean, it's scary how long this cold war has been going on. Even if we somewhat could stop further threats, then we have our Government fighting each other and the damage done by Kim Family lingering on.
I really love Korea, and hope the people in the North can rise up against their government and eventually rejoin the South. I'm sure this is easier said then done, but I think that will be the only way this cold war ends.
Your videos are amazing. Just one simple thing is messing it a bit up: not a single source in the description. Easy to make and lifting up the quality enormously
Not gonna lie, this was one of the worst episodes so far. Too many assumptions, too over the top in those assumptions, no sources, etc. it felt like click bait title but in video form.
@@angriffslusticherWildoger Exactly. Without sources there isn't much holding them back into using a lot of speculation. There is a massive difference in a video from say Caspian Report and others like him vs RLL. RLL have always been a little overly dramatic but it's become more speculative and more overly dramatic. They often state the speculative part as if it's a fact too.
There’s not a single country on earth that puts south at the top of their maps, so while it’s an interesting thought experiment to consider, upside down maps are totally pointless in practice.
@@Spengleman2 it's been used historically both in Australia and South America There are variations that have the Americas on the East as well and Asia in the center
Korea and Japan both have plans for "Just in Time" nuclear weapons that could be built on short notice . We had nuclear weapons on the peninsula for a long time. They were nuclear tipped Nike anti aircraft missiles that also had a ground attack mode.
When I was a freshman in college, my roommate was an international student from South Korea. I live in Missouri, so we have tornado warning drills with LOUD sirens regularly. One day, After hearing the sirens go off, My roommate looked a bit concerned, pointed up at the sky and said, “bombs”? He thought it was a bomb-drill. That experience will always stick with me as a reminder of the realities that many people outside the US face, especially in South Korea. Of all the drills I had to go through in the US, I’ve never had a bomb-drill. My parents are boomers so I always heard stories about the Cold-War nuke drills they did at schools… But to the Koreans, that’s just their every day reality. My friend served his time (mandatory conscription) in the Korean marines, and he is now living in the US. I have nothing but respect for South Korea and their military.
@@bristoled93 very interesting! We don’t have to deal with Earthquakes or Hurricanes in the Midwest, but I live in a region that is known by many as “Tornado alley”. One of our nearby cities (Joplin, Missouri) got absolutely demolished by a Tornado about a decade ago (2011?). I even met some folks who were inside of a Walmart when the tornado directly hit the building. They survived but tornados are no joke. With that said, most Missourians who see a tornado are more likely to grab a chair and a beer than to hide from them. There’s only so much you can do, so most people around here don’t get too worried by tornado weather.
haha SKorea is much more safer than safest place non-govt place in US. He faces harsh realities like some drill which he'll never face, while your classmates could get shot in during a school siren
We had to do bomb drills on the US when I was in elementary school in the 90’s. We’d ride under our desks. This was because the US was still afraid Russia would nuke us.
Just as a lesson about how life can be all about perspective. I have a good friend that works out twice a day, reads two books a week and has sex at least once every day... yet every time I talk to him, he tells me about how horrible prison is and it's the worst place.
I like how "hope and freedom" is used in a sentence so casually as if it matters one iota in their rational. Strategic advantage is what he meant to say
I really enjoy these videos and find them interesting. However, I would suggest linking sources in the description, just so people can do more research if they want and just to make sure that everyone knows where the information is coming from.
I google about it then 2 sources -Unveiled in October 2020, the missile is believed to have a range of 15,000km or more, and could potentially carry three or four warheads, rather than only one.(from bbc) -North Korea, which has launched at least 88 ballistic and other missiles this year, fired an ICBM that could travel 9,300 miles or longer, putting the U.S. mainland within its range, according to Japan's defense minister (from abcnews)
I have doubts that South Korea backing out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty would make them into a pariah. Not only are they economically important on a global scale, not to mention the influence from the Korean diaspora within many allied nations, but South Korea is also still ideologically aligned with these nations whether or not they have nukes. At most, they would only lose their most tenuously linked trading partners.
@@Aaron-sx7zfWhat is alternative? Wait for day they attack? Obama gave “strategic patience” which is a fancy way of saying they did nothing. Same thing with Iran--and allowing them get to gets of cash in the night. It may have been their money-but they put into ☢️ weapons and Hamas. Thanks Obama.
North Koreans would unironically be better off if their country was invaded and annexed by South Korea with US's help. Sadly, the best opportunity (during the 1990s when China was weak, USSR dead, and NK in the middle of a famine) was wasted.
I was stationed in Seoul in 2014-2015. North Korea fired a rocket accross the DMZ to destroy a S. Korean propoganda speaker. At the time we did didn't know this though, and we all thought we were about to get attacked. It was one of the most tense moments of my life, because we knew that our current location was in the impact zone of thousands of artillery pieces. We had also been told many times that's we were just a "speedbump" to slow down the N Korean Army until reinforcements from the mainland arrived.
The upside down map was AMAZING! Tried finding the extended content on this video on Nebula and I couldn’t find it (even following the link) 🤷🏽♀️ Great content and have to say that I’m always amazed at how little I know and understand about geo politics. 🥰
Fascinating stuff! Honestly, ive been gettinf more and more into history and modern history especially recently and your channel has won a place in my go to channels list!
I was stationed at Osan AB in 1994 when that standoff happened. They were censoring the news so we did not know what was happening, other than we were in a very long intense exercise. It really wasn't until years later did I learn how close to war we came. We would have won in the end, but I doubt most of the troops stationed there initially with me would have survived other than the pilots, who would have dropped their bombs and flew to Japan as they did not expect to hold the bases.
Yeah , those bases would have been overran, if not destroyed before hand. That is what the ppl who are stationed there need to realize and understand, they are the sacrificial lambs if things go south.
@@juicyfruit4378 has our presence in SK, stopped NK from developing and possessing nukes? Certainly they would never cross over without these capabilities first. Just like Russia is reclaiming Ukraine and China, Taiwan, so will the NK of SK. Don't be an idiot, stop remaining blind to reality, if they wish to unify those lands, then what was put there as deterrence, must be removed, so yeah, they are the sacrificial presence there, until help comes.
The rocket was a Hwasong 17. It's been around for a couple of years they just hadn't pushed it as far. 6000 km is extremely impressive and it's a beast of a rocket well capable of orbital lauch of around 1 t. Staged combustion engines too, basically Made in Korea RD-250s. It is my estimation that we can expect a lot of space launch activity from NK in the coming years. It's proven way of testing missiles while performing useful work such as launching surveillance satellites. They are cut off from the rest of the world so having their own intelligence gathering assets is vital and of course it's a big propaganda victory. People still think their rockets are shit when actually they have become a premier manufacturer of doomsday devices. Coupled with the last tested nuclear weapon the H17 becomes something to be feared. Up to 6 x 250 kt, most likely able to be targeted individually. And with that yield their bad accuracy is less relevant now. You can miss by quite a bit with that yield and with decoys the GMD ABM system would be overwhelmed by as few as 5-8 H17s. After that the rest would get through. Honestly one could do it, just dedicate one H17 to launching 50 decoys or more (inflatable warheads painted to reflect radar like a real one).
Fear. Many will read what you have left here and they will fear it. I do not. It is possible to be aware of nuclear weapons and not be living in fear of it. I have been doing it my whole life. You have too. Everyone born after 1949 has. Every human born after 1949 on this Earth has lived their entire lives under the relentless threat of nuclear annihilation. It is as natural to you as breathing is at this point. It is a part of what defines you as '221 b'; and without the relentless threat of nuclear annihilation you would be someone else entirely. And if your parents were born after 1949(like mine were) they would have been the same way, which means without the relentless threat of nuclear annihilation you may not even exist. Yeah, you may owe your very existence to the relentless threat of nuclear annihilation. How can you be afraid of this? How can anyone be afraid of it? Do you even have a right to be afraid of it?! Me? When I hear threats of nuclear annihilation I lean one of two ways. I dismiss it entirely, or I treat the threat with indignance. I either don't care or I dare you to do it. Because really, at this point, if I did fear the relentless threat of nuclear annihilation, I would be paralyzed with fear, huddled in a corner somewhere, unable to move, unable to function. And lastly, what does one expect another to do? These are matters that are unfortunately way beyond your control. I mean, if you had the time to worry about a UA-cam video, you don't have any control over anything. So fear? Why even bother with it.
@@221b-l3t I would argue that nuclear weapons are no longer useful as a deterrent. I could site the number of people who think stopping Russia is too dangerous and risky, as the argument. In their case, the mere mention of nuclear weapons was enough to get them to back down. What does that even mean? That means Russia is ALREADY using their nukes in an offensive manner. In fact, Russia has leveraged their nuclear weapons to good effect, they have been able to use them without actually detonating them. Effectively allowing Russia to use their nukes, free of charge. Nuclear deterrent no longer works. And really, I am wondering now if it EVER worked to begin with.
Really enjoy your content thank you for for the videos. One piece of prime feedback: avoid overuse of vocal emphasis. Many of your sentences have you stressing multiple words. If you use this vocal technique too often, it really diminishes the content. 4:18 has one sentence where "rapidly" and "prime" are both heavily stressed, and it comes off a bit distracting. If everything is important, than nothing is important. Best of luck in 2023!
It happens most with the words having a "H" in them. A form of vocal technique to control mild stuttering perhaps? It eludes me why would anyone choose to speak like that unless to overcome slight phonetic issues.
Harold coyle, a retired army officer wrote an excellent novel about a confrontation between the US and north Korea resulting in a conventional war called "team Yankee" all of his novels are excellent, team Yankee is one of my favorites, also highly recommend "the ten thousand" a modern version of Xenophon's story
You should probably read about the Actual Korean war instead of masterbatory jingoism. We Lost. Then Macarther reinvaded and fought nk to a draw. That fantasy bullshit is cancerous
Coyle also wrote a novel about a U.S. invasion of Mexico and published it years before the WOT got us into Iraq. I think it was a pretty fair assessment of what we’d encounter if the events actually occurred. No more 19th Century gunboat diplomacy.
This is a very well made video with balanced perspectives. The geopolitical concerns North Korea and China have that are quite valid (which aren't covered much elsewhere), and the sticky situation with South Korea, rather than glossing over with the usual "China / NK bad" or something. ❤
@@Gunsmoke2220 In another video of his, relevant to Russia and the ongoing war in Ukraine, I wrote in the comments below that he 's kinda obsessed with how evil Russia is, without referring to America's key role for hundreds of wars globally..
That population thing was very interesting. The next 20-30 years are going to be really interesting. Lots of countries going to have big population crisis with other country's like Nigeria having booms
@@boerandemo7766 shortest answer is it's a transfer of power from federal to provincial and municipal governments to the UN-regional-microstates and municipal. A supranational layer of governance is being added, and provincial government is being divided into regional and microstates But to answer as to whom, all governments work for banking corporations. These corporations all have slices of the pie worldwide and the middle of the pie is unknown to me.
@@boerandemo7766 *the big kick in the crotch about how canada is being divided is that when the npcs rise up they will blame immigrants instead of themselves and our government.
As a patriotic Chinese, I respect your decency of actively explaining our reasonable strategy, rather than joining mass media saying things without any proof.
I'm noticing a pattern here: it's always the money, i.e. the oil. I lived through both invasions of Iraq, so you would think I couldn't be surprised by that today. The mainstream media somehow forgets to mention that oil was involved in conflicts, so sometimes it sneaks up on you.
I *_looove_* these extra long videos that go deep into the topics! We all know the best channels on UA-cam are the educational channels, and even among them, you're To 5.
The North Korean population pyramid, however, does suggest a very high infant mortality rate (shocking, I know), rather casting doubt on the idea that North Korea's population will quickly outgrow that of the South.
Yeah, there are a lot more factors that go into projecting future demographics then outlined in the video. Which isn’t to say the South Korea, China and Japan aren’t all facing stiff demographic challenges. They are. It’s just that there are more factors at play then simply birth rates.
He never said outgrown the South, just that they will be more or less similar to each other and with NK men serving for 10 yrs vs SK men serving for 18 months, NK will have a much larger and much more experienced army 30 yrs in the future
Today's fact: Eugene Aldrin, the father of the famous moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan.
Something I have suspected for a long time is this. Because of mutually assured annihilation, countries with nuclear capabilities, do not need to fear being invaded, or attacked conventionally, because in a phase of being destroyed, they can just launch their missiles, likely starting the end of the world. If I was a high ranking general, my number one priority in weapons, research would be developing a way to intercept or disable launched Weapons of mass destruction. Because everybody having a gun to the others head means we all lose but if one had the ability to make it, so everybody else has guns don’t fire that leaves only us holding the gun. Since the end of the Cold War, I imagine this has been a high priority. And we The public have no idea that technologies our military has. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying that at any given time are military has technology that is 10 years more advanced than what is available to the public for obvious reasons. I sure hope we have something like this, but if we don’t, it is shortly in the works, and not just by us. Whoever is able to successfully create a means to make nuclear weapons, inert or not a threat. That country will be the new world superpower.
Great video. The only thing I disagree with is the talk about tactical nuclear weapons. Even though they are much smaller in scale, the use of them will inevitably lead to the use of strategic nuclear weapons, making them inherently strategic
Tactical nuclear weapons isn't even an official term used by militaries. Just high or low yield. You're right in that any use of nuclear weapons opens the box for more escalation into high grade 'strategic' nuclear missiles that can level cities...
Exactly. William Spaniel (sp?) is a UA-camr who’s an expert on Ukraine - Russia and he talked about that. He mentioned a tactical nuclear bomb use opens up the possibility of a full nuclear attack.
@@Joe125g20 yeah, but that's the point of them too, is not using them, is the treat of using them and eliminating a american responses in seconds... suddenly, all that carrier and bases became a big easy target than a deterrence against the north. specially as the vietnam war (and iraq and afghanistan war) proved... USA population is sensible to causalities and will not enter in a war that will kill millions happy...
The detail you go into in your videos is remarkable 👌🏼 I applaud you for that because it's rare these days. I've heard WWII stories that were absolutely gruesome so I don't think you telling factual history is wrong. When did UA-cam start censoring history?
they don't necessarily 'censor' it, the terms and conditions on how modern conflicts and contraversial topics are treated is a bit of a grey area and can lead to easy demonitisation, then the algorithm kicks in and either doesn't promote the video or age restricts it - not saying this is 100% the reasoning but its how far i understand it to be.
It's not censored. At least 80% of UA-cams viewers are under the age of 18 and promoting violent, sexual or otherwise inappropriate material to children would chase away advertisers and start forcing parents to ban their children from UA-cam altogether grossly lowering revenues which you might not care about but would cause your favorite creators to not be able to do this for a living because UA-cam wouldn't be able to pay them. Is not allowing children to purchase pornography or watch ultra violent movies censorship? No, it's just common sense. I love this creator and they have nearly 7 million subscribers so it's safe to say the UA-cam algorithm has actually been incredibly kind to them. Not to mention how many channels out there pump out straight up propaganda and push agenda driven narratives painting history and current affairs in a light favorable to their political affiliation and obviously monitoring that content is very difficult. UA-cam is so large and ubiquitous now it's not unreasonable to expect it to follow the same guidelines as other mainstream broadcasters.
With all of the hardened targets and miles of tunnel systems N. Korea has, the island hopping of WWII would seem like a holiday. Never under estimate your opponent.
So many nations people and governments don’t take demography seriously enough in their national interests. Lots of western countries for example are potentially sleep walking into disaster. It will be interesting to see how South Korea and Japan try address this issue, doesn’t seem to be an easy solution any time soon
Russia is one of them as well, their population is decreasing since the end of URSS I heard they already have some programs to incentivize new immigrants
@@tenzingyatso5096 problem even with that is a lot of young people don’t want children even if they could skip pregnancy and childbirth, their too distracted with holidays, shopping, socialising and less responsibility.. you wouldn’t have enough people wanting to parent
Robots and AI maybe? I dunno. Slavery? Oh.... Both! Both is good! (this is supposed to be verry dark irony! pls dont get me publicly executed like im in *some countries* !)
The only issue with this - you know that the moment a single nuke goes out - US would rather eradicate whole North Korea than risk losing more people and cities. I wouldn't underestimate them, especially as they already have a history of using nukes to end conflicts swiftly.
It's not so much about nukes. We will throw endless resources and people for two decades into a war and still lose. Then move on and learn nothing. Our government isn't us though. We have little to no say in anything....just like North Korea, but we have food.
If North Korea fires a nuke at us, I sure hope we do. It’s horrible for the NK people… but we would have to put an immediate end to it before we would suffer more loses. What should we do? Try to invade them while they keep nuking our cities? Say you better not do it again? No… complete destruction of their regime. Which would probably obliterate the majority of their country. But it would have to be done immediately without second though
Well normally I’d say just because there’s a precedent doesn’t mean there’s conviction however given the context of how it happened the first time, you’re probably right.
The one factor that came to mind that can be an option by S. Korea is if say 30 years from now they don't have the man power to fill their military needs. S. Korea has the economic, infrastructure and technological advantage and As A.I and robotics tech improves. They devote their efforts in R&D in those fields and start creating a robotic army.
Robotic armies are a fools errand, not only would it be extremely expensive and unrealistic , it wouldn't matter in the long run as electronic warfare and anti-drone capabilities improve and make such armies obsolete, also a 50 cal doesn't care if it hits flesh or metal It's simply unhealthy and uninspiring for a nation to outsource military duty to robots, you might as well castrate all those spiritual eunuchs at that point, such cowardly ppl don't deserve to be saved in case of invasion
You can hack or emp electronics, humans are a resource that is still reliable even then. The more common sense choice is to increase immigration, there are countries in the world that are having a population boom, encourage their integration, and education to give them tools to integrate into their society to help their economic situation and military situation.
North Korea would need to consider how China, about their only ally, would react to them starting a war since China wouldn't want a war disrupting their economic growth
Not really. This guy gives extremely metaphysical takes, which leaves out so much interplay and nuance. This is genuinely textbook propaganda, with enough words to make it sound like a holistic perspective when it literally intentionally leaves out an incredible amount of perspectives , history , and politics
Great content. Made me think back on that trump/kim agreement to disarm nukes in Korea. Based on this info, it wouldn't make sense for Korea to agree to that if it increases the risk of being invaded. It neither states that the us will disarm nukes as well, which is a pretty amusing one-sided arrangement.
I’m a Korean/American living in Korea for 20 years. Enjoyed the video. The information is fairly accurate and legit. The low birth rate is actually much lower (0.78) . China does support N Korea. N korea shooting missiles across is a daily thing here. I used to hear bomb sirens when I moved here and got scared , but now they don’t play the siren anymore for some reason. Sad to say but you get used to missile launches here and it doesn’t phase the S Koreans (or at least not as much as people would think so). N Korea has threatened for so long and its also a way of trying to get money from S Korea due to sanctions. N korea is not stupid enough to attack S Korea due to the US military , but it is true that S Korea wanting to arm itself w/ nukes too. It’s crazy reality but everybody here seems to erase it w/ K-pop & k dramas.
Any conflict breaking out for them would spell the end of their regime, I would think. Getting a tactical nuke certainly makes them difficult to deal with, but unless they become unhinged and are willing to throw it all away, there isn't much else they can really do outside of posturing.
@@noidsuperexcept if NK declared open war by launching nukes they'd swiftly get rained down upon. Nuclear war is a zero sum game, but the ones initiating it stand to lose even more than the ones getting hit by the initial nuke. It's why even 1 and a half years after Putin's invasion of Ukraine, with all those threats of using nuclear arms, it hasn't happened once. Putin knows if he launches nukes he will well and truly be on his own. Xi cannot defend the use of nukes while trying to maintain the sovereignty stance. It would immediately escalate the invasion and get NATO involved. If NK started launching nukes they'd get a swift response from the West, SK, and Japan
@@josh___somethingif kim knows he will lose his land he will 100% fire everything in his arsenal onto the world killing 10+ million people nobody wants that which is exactly why nobody interferes with NK they sit on the longer lever
Yeah, I agree they are unhinged@@noidsuper. Both things need to be true, I would think. Like josh said, it doesn't seem like they willing to give up what they have just yet.
When I was a child , my family lived in Liaoning , a province in northeastern China that borders North Korea. Every time there was a missile test, we were all filled with fear because we didn’t trust their technology. Being so close, even a small mistake could have wiped out our city. To this day, I still remember nervously watching the news with my grandmother many years ago!
South Korea's centralized economic power is actually the biggest weakness of South Korea itself, seeing how close their productive region is to North Korea, just one brutal attack will paralyze most of their economy. this is why south korea is actually very dependent on US security guarantees. this is the answer why high GDP, high economic growth does not always reflect the real strength of a country. even if the war finally happen, the society on the south korea cant go to other country to save their life cause geographic condition is not on their side. if they run to north that will be worst option, if they move to the south, the sea is biggest threat for them. This is the nightmare of natural prison
@Abhijeet Kundu while vast majority live nera the coast, not everyone does, that's what i mean. Like those in Daegu and Daejeon, the infrastructure leading to the coast can easily be severed in case of war, and they certainly don't have something to cross the sea.
South Korea would suffer but the technology difference between them is too great for the north to be able to pull off any victory without using nukes. The South Koreans don't need the US to gain air superiority, they can do it by themselves because the stuff the north flies and AA systems they use are so old they stand no chance against a modern air force.
This makes me remember being stationed at SOCPAC when that bombardment happened in 2010. I worked in he Command Center but not in any operation capacity (VTC Tech XD) But never the less, I remember getting called in, confused as to what was going on, for a few hours a hand full of us sat in the CC and talked about the beginning of WWIII and How we were going to remember where we were when it started. Surreal stuff, thinking about it now we were all completely convinced that was the beginning. Wasn't even that we were worried the North or China was going to make the first move either. The concern was that the South was going to just lose patience with it all.
The only thing I don’t like about nebula is that we’re not able to give a like to the videos on there. You all work so hard on making fantastic content on there and you all deserve some form of positive feedback from us❤️
Nebula platform has some issues. No likes or dislikes. No comments. And only one saved folder (watch later). I like to save some videos I’ve already watched but can’t do playlist.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Even thought Nebula could be improved on (like anything can be improved) I still think it's a very great use of the money that went to paying a year of it. It cost me like 19€/year and there's so much great content!
I was watching an interview video of south koreans, a lot say they are focusing on careers and cant afford kids but they want kids. I think partially what you have to do is force rich corporations to give moms more affordable bills (internet, energy, cell phone, car, rent being the most important). Especially based on wealth brackets obviously the intent on helping lower income mothers is important, but also incentivizing more well off mothers to have kids in any ways possible. While also making sure moms have career flexibility to raise kids and job security to feel safe. Theres more to it but I think this would be a basic start. These are things moms need in order to feel more secure to raise kids. And immigration also will help.
@@casualpasser-by5954 That is the most realiable way of not having a labor shortage. It's also a tested statergy that makes up for low birth rates whereas incentives for having kids has (till now) not caused dramatic increase in child birth in any county where it's a problem.
NK using a nuke would result in retaliatory nuclear strikes hitting every major military location within hours. It would be the end of NK. Honestly, too horrible to even think about.
They know that. They’re doing it for political power. The North Korean gdp is pathetic. They provide absolutely nothing to the world. Yet America is in constant proximity to NK on the political stage which is power in itself. We negotiate their whims and wishes because we’re too level headed to play the matador, for now.
Iraq didn't willingly give up its nuclear weapons because it never had any , thier Reactor got destroyed by isarel a bit before desert Strom happened before it even had the chance to start operating , Isarel used like 8 F16s to do that This same type of operation also happened against Syria... EDIT : Ukraine was way more complex then Just "Security grantees " , Ukraine had no access to these weapon what's so ever , as all the codes were in the hands of the Moscow based forces and they werent about to say a thing , Further The US had actually prepared a financial aid package for all Eastern block with a condition of disarmament... Baiscly Ukraine didn't had the money to hold/maintenane or reverse engineer it , Nore did it the means to use it or even the army to hold it while the attmpet of revesere engineering these happens , The political backing wasn't really there either , in a scene getting ride of these weapons like Belarus and kazhaksten was the only safe thing to do and the security grantee that "this is Ukraine" was about the best they could get with it
AND Israel's attacks on Iraq and Syria were, internationally, very illegal. There is a difference between GIVING UP something and having it taken from you.
Iraq didn't give up nuclear weapons but it served as an example of what it can mean to be a non-nuclear country on United States' bad side. Especially when you compare that to Russia where US don't even dare directly intervene in Ukraine. For NK this is a clear sign: if you don't have nuclear weapons, you're prey. If you do have them... then even invading South might be an option since US might end up hesitant to really throw their weight behind it if NK threatens nuclear retaliation in such case.
@@Eliastion Yeah, ngl I have always been curious at the idea of how NK or other regimes would react if U.S. Just decided to go through anyway, like would they just accept mutual destruction and fire the nukes or back down as well, and maintain a conventional war.
@@Eliastion North Korea probably got like four nuclear weapon. And trust me they won’t use it. Just like usa say if you ever use it they will be erase from world map. True story
@Eliastion in his vod it made it sound like They "willingly gaved up nukes that they controlled " which in either of the cases mentioned , they didn't Controll or even owned them , in Iraq case they didn't even had it The only one case of a state willingly giving a way Nukes that they owned controlled and fully operated by themselves was Aperthied south Africa, which did so because the white minority ruling party didn't trust the black majority party with these weapons , and So... Scrapped! Baiscly RLL was kinda of misleading with the way he said it..
Putting Iran in the Axis of Evil caused so much harm to the US-Iran relationship. Iran was putting a real hurting on the Taliban in the northern territories. That state of the union address effectively took Iran out of the fight against Taliban and the al-Qaeda overnight.
The Bush legacy. I recall how shocked I was with the cavalier use of the word crusade when Bush spoke after 911. It took the pundits 2 days to pick up on it . Leaders should know some history.
To be fair, while Iran were co-operating with the US in northern Afghanistan, they were also funding movements to destabilise western Afghanistan. There were also reports saying that Zarqawi fled across the border into Iran to seek refuge along with AQ fighters in 2001. Whilst officially Iranian police were actively looking for him and even “arrested” him in 2002, Jordanian intelligence say that Zarqawi had “friends here and there” within Irans government/intelligence. There are also rumours that Iranian intelligence encouraged him to act against American forces in the Middle East. Not to mention the countless Hezbollah attacks carried out against Americans. Tldr: Iran was helping US in northern Afghan but were simultaneously having hezbollah attack US troops and were openly funding and aiding terrorists within the Middle East. They deserved to be included in the Axis of Evil.
Sure, that is probably true, but it is also an asshat of a country creating completely unnecessary misery for millions for personal egoboosting of the leadership. It really is an evil government when one considers its domestic and particularly its foreign policy. It is difficult to decide whether we should be honest, or say whatever is politically convenient in that scenario. Iran persecutes gays and women with abandon. While not the worst country in that regard, it is definitely not a great country to ally with, such alliances would only ever be allies of convenience (like Arabia). Worse yet is their support for overt terrorists who deliberately target innocent civilians.
@@martinphilip8998 I guess. But, I don’t see a problem with it. The Crusades were very complex campaigns with very diverse sets of objectives and methods. Some were barbaric, others were hilariously incompetent, and everything in between.
I'm going to South Korea in a few weeks and it doesn't phase me one bit. What does shock me to me core though is that the Bush Axis of Evil speech turns 21 years old on Sunday.
What is the nuclear fall out of these tactical nukes? I figured a major region to avoid using nuclear weaponry(other then retaliation) is because it left the land unusable for a number of years.
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Maybe this is a hot take, but despite my general disapproval of nuclear weapons, both Koreas are more than justified in (*potentially* for South Korea) acquiring them.
@@emperorcorning8329 exactly. above every thing else, comes self-preservation. thats why we saw the Iranian government taking drastic measures earlier. They were in full regime-survival mode.
@@PosterityIslesNews im not fond of the old iraqi and syrian regimes but that brings up the argument of whether or not the rest of the world should have gotten involved. there are many other conflicts happening right now that we are staying out of.
China has the biggest Navy, whatever N Korea has it's not close to comparable. And while China has a couple shitty aircraft carriers, the United States is in possession of 6 or 7 I believe, and they're city huge.
Your videos are always fascinating and not to mention, very informative. Truly, I actually really enjoy listening and just kind of gathering an understanding of the world and its ongoing. anyways, thx, its excellent content. ☯️🙏
When I was a kid, my family lived in the northeastern Chinese province Liaoning that directly boarders NK. Each and every time when there was a missile test, we were also terrified because we're not confident about their technology at all... And since we're just next to each other, a small technical issue might end up destroying our city entirely. Till today I cannot forget watching the news nervously with my grandma many years ago.
That sounds terrifying. I'm still confused how can they claim they have the technology to ruin a specific county when they're having that many technical difficulties.
@@SofijaSofijaSofija Probably because they don't focus on "fixing technical difficulties", but rather "causing as much destruction as possible" (and by that end not caring how the latter might be achieved).
Similar to certain past US presidents - I wasn’t afraid he’d start a world war on purpose, I was afraid he’d stumble into it.
America could have rid the earth of these nuclear terrorist in the 50’s if it weren’t for the Chinese getting involved. That would have never been a problem or worry for you. Oh well. Welcome to the 21st century where there are more than one nuclear terrorist state in the world.
@Radio K.A.O.S. You think they're going to announce the real one as not being a test?
I was stationed in Camp Casey during 2006, and, one day on a road march, I asked Top what we would do if North Korea came over the border. Top stopped the whole formation and explained that all our bases and all our military assets were already dialed into their artillery and rockets, and that our battlefield role was to be a speed bump for North Koreans while The U.S. and South Korea reacted. I never forgot that.
Very interesting. It reminds me of NATO troops in Eastern Europe.
@@orangecat504nazi nato troops yeah. Gotta cleanse the Serbians from Bosnia and kosovo somehow
@@orangecat504 I would say that our groups in eastern Europe are a deterrent. It's about proving that we are willing to back up our NATO allies.
It also forces ourselves to act if Putin does something. If our troups die in Latvia we're gonna have to do something, and Putin knows that.
That will in theory stop Putin from trying anything. Which will lead to no conflict whatsoever.
It's like stationing a police officer to stop speeding, or a home alarm to prevent burglars.
This is the same thing I was told by our brass and that it's supposed to slow the north down so that the us fleet and air lifts can arrive
I think that completely takes away from how important your job was, along with the active duty SK forces, although it would be very bloody it would be imperative that the active duty personnel close to the border fight tooth and nail, because the south Koreans have mandatory conscription they have a massive base of trained men but would need time to raise reserve units or volunteer units like the Ukrainian TDF, organize them, arm them, and give them training on new weapons, tactics and systems, and US forces outside Korea would need time to get in country especially if they are coming from the mainland US, obviously troops from bases like Japan and Guam could be there in days to weeks but considering how massive the Norths army is there will need to be large quantities of men and equipment brought in from North America, the bulk of it by ship, I would not want to be a soldier on or near the DMZ durring the initial hours or days of a conflict, that being said depending on their actions and depending on how feircly they resist it could save the lives of countless civilians if they are given time to flee, and the less ground given the fewer US and South Korean soldiers would need to die later in the conflict taking that ground back, also the less ground taken the less damage would be done to the south Korean infrastructure and economy and could be the difference between a long road to economic recovery and millions of refugees or a short term recession that wouldn't hamper south Korean long term economic ambitions
guys a new phase of brainrot is coming soon
I guess this topic is a 5 word phrase.
He is just that good.
Discount Wendover's back at it again lol
What do you mean?
Yeah who needs context or details!
Thanks!
My main gripe with this channel is the fact that there is no source list provided in the description, at least having some sort of source list gives magnitudes more credibility
because this guy is straight up a western propagandist
Yes! And every time I find an inaccuracy (which is disappointingly often), it makes it seem much less acceptable if there’s no source- like he’s just made something up!
@@boarbot7829 source : trust me bro and Google
@@samkelo27 😂
Exactly
The US throughout the middle east (and russia in ukraine) basically proves the phrase "Actions speak louder than words" Libya being the most blatant example as to why a country will never give up its nukes from now on.
Every last Native American will testify to the fact that no one can ever trust an American "peace" treaty.
Ukraine learned that the hard way unfortunately
Honestly I don't understand why people and leaders of a country would ever give up nukes in any scenario
There are the most foolproof backup plan and a deterrent and no matter if you are surrounded by friends or enemies, it makes them think twice before doing something stupid
We didn't have the ability of Building a nuke system in libya anyway, so giving up was the smart choice for a stupid decision.
But i believe that north Korea wouldn't dare to have it's own nuke without the permission of world's super powers.
India and Pakistan+ korea and south Korea+ russia and europe, all of this makes me think that someone wants to keep "the current status" for an actual nuclear war.
@@tylerkoch5255 those nukes in Ukraine were non-operational Soviet era trash. The Budapest agreement was about securing broken and decaying nuclear hazards, not disarmament. They could not have used those nukes even if they wanted to.
Absolutely love how you went into the POV of China to explain why they support NK. Something severely lacking from almost all other sources of news and media these days
Too many "our enemy is crazy" explanations all around.
Strategy is often reserved for "our side" 😮💨
One of the very very few western channels that is impartial.
There are far too many western propganda channels on the anti-China bandwagon.
Yep. A lot Americans probably think China's happy with NK getting nuclear weapon but it definitely isn't. The chance of an NK missile getting through all the US missile defense and hit LA or NYC accurately is just slim, but Beijing and many big cities in China are within 1000km from NK.
it's kind of self explanatory. dictators stick together
China created this situation with North Korea. Then and the Russian / Soviets.
I swear North Korean are taking notes from this guy. Along with every other war related video he has made.
I hope they do ..but I have love for the people I doubt any other people could convince the libs
@@Jerry-jy7jm100% you have met someone that you care about or have someone in your life currently, may not even know it, that is a lib.
Many people have commented in this channel that threatening to use nuclear weapons is like threatening to flip the table while playing chess, I think this video proves that it’s more like going for an stalemate, no one can do anything because it’d mean to lose
That's not a stalemate, it's called Zugzwang.
@@MAC0071234 Zugzwang is an inbetween move totally unrelated
@@MAC0071234 Zugzwang is when you HAVE to make a move that either will make you lose or worsen your position, stalemate is when you simply cannot move. In Zugzwang there’s a winning side, in an stalemate there is not, the position remains the same just like here
It's a stalemate between those entitled to having nuclear weapons "to protect peace"
For the rest of the world it's more imperialism
you're confusing it with a zwischenzug
I was in Japan during the first missel that went over Japan and I remember the tension. Everyone was like... are we about to go to war with north korea? We found it was a test and not a failed attack a few days later, but man... That sparked a BUNCH of simulations for invasion plans.
Missiles were not fired at Japan. Rockets will mostly fly eastward from the rotation of the earth. Japan is east of NK. Who cares what a US puppet regime think about the development of strategic space defense and space science?
@@toocoolforu Ah yes it sounds so much better to assume they have no idea what they are doing and cant aim a rocket with GPS available for free to anyone. It being an accident makes it even more scary/funny.
Lol nice lie lots of accounts of majority of people in Japan shrug and don’t care. The missile was never aimed at them in the first place
Also this happens often so it’s not a sudden escalation
@@NeostormXLMAX At this point probably. The first time? No people were watching the news and stopping in the street to see what was going on.
Only thing to remember, N. Korea's army is only functional inside N. Korea. Kim Un cannot chance his army outside of N. Korea, not even S. Korea for fear the malnourished army would break like the wind to the nearest buffet. Taking their chances on never returning to N. Korea ever again. It is very difficult for a dictator who publicly executes citizens for listening to the "wrong music" to have such citizens fight and risk their lives for such a person. Especially outside of their country. N. Korea basically is all bark, no bite.
Thats what they want ...they dont go war with south korea or USA ...they make blackmailing forever to tight the guarantee of kim or his successors forever ..hope you understand
you severely underestimate how loyal/brainwashed these people are.
@@sheiladikshit5110 Doesn't really matter. North Korea's military is much less equipped and trained than South Korea, and the SOuth would have full US backing.
The only thing preventing South Korea from winning at this point is that the north can hold their major cities hostage, first with conventional bombs, and now the Nukes.
You are not wrong but you see the thing is that you dont need good soldiers when you have literal rockets doign all the work for you.
Its basicially the same thing when a guy shows up with a gun to a fist fight.
Of course NK will never win a war against anyone really, but it doesnt have to as long as it can kill a lot of people b4 getting killed itself. That is enough for all the democrats to not risk doing anything about NK really.... can't blame them tho I myself woudn't want millions of South Koreans die for this.
You sure about that? The NK army has top priority for the country's food supply, whatever it may be.
Having kids born in prison, having kids born in north korea...same thing
At least in prison you get fed.
now imagine being born in north korean prison 🤣
If I remember correctly North Korea was almost wiped out until China came and entered the war. I think we pushed them back pretty much to the boarder of China; but China thought we were going to invade them next and sent troops over to assist the North Koreans.
Wrong. NK nearly wipe out the superior SK army first. NK PUSH sk all the way to Busan. Then the US military enter and push the NK back to thw Chinese border. That's when china enter and push the US, UN, SK forces passed the 38th. The truce was called and the 38th parallel was agreed as the border.
Correct. What a mistake in hindsight
You forget abou USsr?
We shouldve gone in from the China side
@@AmarFox6eh small detail 😂
This is ridiculous. I know Kim-Jong Un personally and he told me he would never nuke America. He told me that was his least favorite thing to do
Well, well aren't they boasting about how they are going to crush the evil imperialists anymore? They used to at least.
tell kim jong un to free his people then
@@Iqaluitio Mr dragonsword would never do that
Dennis Rodman?
Do you play basketball too?
I think the most daunting task in a war with N. Korea would be going in those bunkers they have. I mean, their bunkers are vast enough to test nuclear explosions. I'd imagine it would be a terrifying feat for any invading army.
Saddam only surrendered in ODS after the USA showed they can blow up his bunkers. Im sure whatever NK has, the USA can defeat it.
So we go back to siege warfare? Starve them out? Genuinely curious how you could tackle those with minimal losses
@@killrsloth9187 divert a river and drown them in the bunker.
I mean all they can really do is sit there with their ww2 equipment.
@@killrsloth9187 it’s not a great strategy lol, if you’ve already taken control of the ground and air, 10000 men in a bunker are way easier to kill than 10000 men on a battlefield.
Let's be real, if they try that country is gonna be a parking lot in 3 days
A “lunar surface looking” parking parking lot
U.s couldn't beat the primitive vietcong spear chuckers or afghans with an ak and a rag 😂 they wouldn't dare fight north korea u.s just bullies countries that they think are an easy win and fail at doing that 😂😂
Its already a parking lot.
Our military doesn’t even need to do it, just get opra and the rock interested in the land!! They will take care of it
As a South Korean, it's scary how long this cold war has been going on. Even if we somewhat could stop further threats, then we have our Government fighting each other and the damage done by Kim Family lingering on.
As long as the south doesn’t start massacring a hundred thousand of its own people again, the north won’t intervene again
I really love Korea, and hope the people in the North can rise up against their government and eventually rejoin the South. I'm sure this is easier said then done, but I think that will be the only way this cold war ends.
what are south korean people like
You're birthrate is so low it won't matter in a few hundred years anyway
Try to unite your northen fellows
Your videos are amazing. Just one simple thing is messing it a bit up: not a single source in the description. Easy to make and lifting up the quality enormously
I think you might be able to find the source in his Nebula channel. But I could be wrong.
Agree
Not gonna lie, this was one of the worst episodes so far. Too many assumptions, too over the top in those assumptions, no sources, etc. it felt like click bait title but in video form.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson that’s it. Showing 0 sources invites you to sooner or later become more speculative and stop sticking to actual valid sources
@@angriffslusticherWildoger Exactly. Without sources there isn't much holding them back into using a lot of speculation. There is a massive difference in a video from say Caspian Report and others like him vs RLL. RLL have always been a little overly dramatic but it's become more speculative and more overly dramatic. They often state the speculative part as if it's a fact too.
i especially appreciated the part of the video where you showed the world map upside down from "normal". thumbs up!
It threw me off for a sec when he said India in the south too. Makes sense and helps show his point. I like it.
There’s not a single country on earth that puts south at the top of their maps, so while it’s an interesting thought experiment to consider, upside down maps are totally pointless in practice.
@@Spengleman2 it's been used historically both in Australia and South America
There are variations that have the Americas on the East as well and Asia in the center
@@arthurheine5631 In southamerica we don't put the World upside down, not in Argentina at least.
@@anti-spiral159 it's a historical thing, most common in Uruguay
I'm from Brazil and I've seen a few as well
US: CHINA, ARE YOU GIVING THESE NUTCASES NUKES?
CHINA: no ...........? Whats a nuke?
No is Russia
Thinks China would be unwise to provide nuclear weapons to North Korea, Pyongyang and Beijing are very close
Korea and Japan both have plans for "Just in Time" nuclear weapons that could be built on short notice
. We had nuclear weapons on the peninsula for a long time. They were nuclear tipped Nike anti aircraft missiles that also had a ground attack mode.
Virgin north korea- test fires a missile in sea of Japan
Chad India - test fires missile right into Pakistan
@@Squish_that_cat india isn't chad for launching an nuke into a country, any country wouldnt be a chad for that
@@veinssupreme you didn't read about the 'accidental' launch of brahmos supersonic cruise missile into Pakistan
@@Squish_that_cat no?
@@veinssupreme try searching about it
When I was a freshman in college, my roommate was an international student from South Korea. I live in Missouri, so we have tornado warning drills with LOUD sirens regularly. One day, After hearing the sirens go off, My roommate looked a bit concerned, pointed up at the sky and said, “bombs”? He thought it was a bomb-drill.
That experience will always stick with me as a reminder of the realities that many people outside the US face, especially in South Korea. Of all the drills I had to go through in the US, I’ve never had a bomb-drill. My parents are boomers so I always heard stories about the Cold-War nuke drills they did at schools… But to the Koreans, that’s just their every day reality.
My friend served his time (mandatory conscription) in the Korean marines, and he is now living in the US. I have nothing but respect for South Korea and their military.
I am British, at a school I went to near D.C. we had a tornado drill, we don't have tornado drills in Europe.
@@bristoled93 very interesting! We don’t have to deal with Earthquakes or Hurricanes in the Midwest, but I live in a region that is known by many as “Tornado alley”.
One of our nearby cities (Joplin, Missouri) got absolutely demolished by a Tornado about a decade ago (2011?). I even met some folks who were inside of a Walmart when the tornado directly hit the building. They survived but tornados are no joke.
With that said, most Missourians who see a tornado are more likely to grab a chair and a beer than to hide from them. There’s only so much you can do, so most people around here don’t get too worried by tornado weather.
haha SKorea is much more safer than safest place non-govt place in US.
He faces harsh realities like some drill which he'll never face, while your classmates could get shot in during a school siren
We had to do bomb drills on the US when I was in elementary school in the 90’s. We’d ride under our desks. This was because the US was still afraid Russia would nuke us.
@@isabellam1936 Liar, I was in school in the 90's nvr did that shit
Just as a lesson about how life can be all about perspective. I have a good friend that works out twice a day, reads two books a week and has sex at least once every day... yet every time I talk to him, he tells me about how horrible prison is and it's the worst place.
Yeah He's the one picking the soup
wait a minute..
Um, what??
@@barakato It’s his fault for always picking chicken noodle
Doesn't look all that bad 🙃
You are just about the only voice I can think of who still cares about this issue. Bravo, and thank you
I like how "hope and freedom" is used in a sentence so casually as if it matters one iota in their rational. Strategic advantage is what he meant to say
What if hope and freedom provide strategic advantages?
Hope and Freedom mean cluster munitions and White Phosphorus by American terms.
@@dsdy1205 country isn't considered free if it's not friendly towards USA
@anguschandler4482not really lol
@@al1sa920 NK defender lmao
I really enjoy these videos and find them interesting. However, I would suggest linking sources in the description, just so people can do more research if they want and just to make sure that everyone knows where the information is coming from.
I google about it then 2 sources
-Unveiled in October 2020, the missile is believed to have a range of 15,000km or more, and could potentially carry three or four warheads, rather than only one.(from bbc)
-North Korea, which has launched at least 88 ballistic and other missiles this year, fired an ICBM that could travel 9,300 miles or longer, putting the U.S. mainland within its range, according to Japan's defense minister (from abcnews)
Source (trust me bro)
Source (my homie said)
Source (I heard)
It’s Wikipedia bruv
I have doubts that South Korea backing out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty would make them into a pariah. Not only are they economically important on a global scale, not to mention the influence from the Korean diaspora within many allied nations, but South Korea is also still ideologically aligned with these nations whether or not they have nukes. At most, they would only lose their most tenuously linked trading partners.
Also SK is a important chip maker, which only like 2 countries in the world are.
Koreans are basically Americans
Not for long
Nk would almost certainly see that as an act of aggression
@@Aaron-sx7zfWhat is alternative? Wait for day they attack?
Obama gave “strategic patience” which is a fancy way of saying they did nothing.
Same thing with Iran--and allowing them get to gets of cash in the night. It may have been their money-but they put into ☢️ weapons and Hamas.
Thanks Obama.
Knowing why no one can stop them is only the first step in knowing how to stop them
-why did you invade Iraq ?
=We suspected they might has nukes
-why didn't you invade North Korea?
= Are you crazy !! they have nukes
North Koreans would unironically be better off if their country was invaded and annexed by South Korea with US's help. Sadly, the best opportunity (during the 1990s when China was weak, USSR dead, and NK in the middle of a famine) was wasted.
American arguments be like :
They have tested nukes you dimwit. We know they have them. Probably why the regime still exists.
Saudi Arabia makes 9/11, Saddam gets the blame because daddy issues. History.
It’s almost like you want to invade countries BEFORE they get nukes…
I was stationed in Seoul in 2014-2015. North Korea fired a rocket accross the DMZ to destroy a S. Korean propoganda speaker. At the time we did didn't know this though, and we all thought we were about to get attacked. It was one of the most tense moments of my life, because we knew that our current location was in the impact zone of thousands of artillery pieces. We had also been told many times that's we were just a "speedbump" to slow down the N Korean Army until reinforcements from the mainland arrived.
Ive always wondered how you would even function knowing that every military installation in the region could be wiped, and you’re in one of them.
Lol you guys were told that shit too 😂😂😅 I was also a "bump stop" in 2018.
The upside down map was AMAZING! Tried finding the extended content on this video on Nebula and I couldn’t find it (even following the link) 🤷🏽♀️
Great content and have to say that I’m always amazed at how little I know and understand about geo politics. 🥰
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i love shit like that, we’re so used to the world map simply turning it upside down gives you a whole new perspective
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The Nebula video linked is from Aug 2021.
"North Korea since 2000"
Wouldn't really call it a companion to this though.
@@TEDodd Thanks! That was very helpful 🥰
Fortunately UA-cam didn't take this down. It now has 6M views in fact, and the algorithm or whatever recommended this video to me.
Fascinating stuff!
Honestly, ive been gettinf more and more into history and modern history especially recently and your channel has won a place in my go to channels list!
Lol
I have same interest as you could you recommend me other channels.
The fact that I never thought that N Korea can blackmail China really surprised me.
They can't. That was hyperbolic. Beijing would prefer the Kim dynasty and status quo to be maintained but won't just take their shit lying down
I was stationed at Osan AB in 1994 when that standoff happened. They were censoring the news so we did not know what was happening, other than we were in a very long intense exercise. It really wasn't until years later did I learn how close to war we came. We would have won in the end, but I doubt most of the troops stationed there initially with me would have survived other than the pilots, who would have dropped their bombs and flew to Japan as they did not expect to hold the bases.
Yeah , those bases would have been overran, if not destroyed before hand. That is what the ppl who are stationed there need to realize and understand, they are the sacrificial lambs if things go south.
@Darren clown
Spoiler alert:
The jews have been censoring your news since 1915, 2 years after their banking cartel started printing the USD.
@@martinandrew3189 pure BS
@@juicyfruit4378 has our presence in SK, stopped NK from developing and possessing nukes? Certainly they would never cross over without these capabilities first. Just like Russia is reclaiming Ukraine and China, Taiwan, so will the NK of SK. Don't be an idiot, stop remaining blind to reality, if they wish to unify those lands, then what was put there as deterrence, must be removed, so yeah, they are the sacrificial presence there, until help comes.
The reason is the countries supporting North Korea not the country itself, no one wants to risk starting WW3.
The rocket was a Hwasong 17. It's been around for a couple of years they just hadn't pushed it as far. 6000 km is extremely impressive and it's a beast of a rocket well capable of orbital lauch of around 1 t. Staged combustion engines too, basically Made in Korea RD-250s. It is my estimation that we can expect a lot of space launch activity from NK in the coming years. It's proven way of testing missiles while performing useful work such as launching surveillance satellites. They are cut off from the rest of the world so having their own intelligence gathering assets is vital and of course it's a big propaganda victory. People still think their rockets are shit when actually they have become a premier manufacturer of doomsday devices. Coupled with the last tested nuclear weapon the H17 becomes something to be feared. Up to 6 x 250 kt, most likely able to be targeted individually. And with that yield their bad accuracy is less relevant now. You can miss by quite a bit with that yield and with decoys the GMD ABM system would be overwhelmed by as few as 5-8 H17s. After that the rest would get through. Honestly one could do it, just dedicate one H17 to launching 50 decoys or more (inflatable warheads painted to reflect radar like a real one).
Fear. Many will read what you have left here and they will fear it. I do not. It is possible to be aware of nuclear weapons and not be living in fear of it. I have been doing it my whole life. You have too. Everyone born after 1949 has. Every human born after 1949 on this Earth has lived their entire lives under the relentless threat of nuclear annihilation. It is as natural to you as breathing is at this point. It is a part of what defines you as '221 b'; and without the relentless threat of nuclear annihilation you would be someone else entirely. And if your parents were born after 1949(like mine were) they would have been the same way, which means without the relentless threat of nuclear annihilation you may not even exist. Yeah, you may owe your very existence to the relentless threat of nuclear annihilation.
How can you be afraid of this? How can anyone be afraid of it? Do you even have a right to be afraid of it?!
Me? When I hear threats of nuclear annihilation I lean one of two ways. I dismiss it entirely, or I treat the threat with indignance. I either don't care or I dare you to do it. Because really, at this point, if I did fear the relentless threat of nuclear annihilation, I would be paralyzed with fear, huddled in a corner somewhere, unable to move, unable to function.
And lastly, what does one expect another to do? These are matters that are unfortunately way beyond your control. I mean, if you had the time to worry about a UA-cam video, you don't have any control over anything.
So fear? Why even bother with it.
@@221b-l3t I would argue that nuclear weapons are no longer useful as a deterrent. I could site the number of people who think stopping Russia is too dangerous and risky, as the argument. In their case, the mere mention of nuclear weapons was enough to get them to back down. What does that even mean? That means Russia is ALREADY using their nukes in an offensive manner. In fact, Russia has leveraged their nuclear weapons to good effect, they have been able to use them without actually detonating them. Effectively allowing Russia to use their nukes, free of charge.
Nuclear deterrent no longer works. And really, I am wondering now if it EVER worked to begin with.
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you still not realized that none of them actually made in korea but rather exported from one european country ?
It doesn't matter if their stuff works or not if they use it, that's the end, keep them pegged in and leave them!?!
Everyone always says "Why's North Korea", nobody ever asks "How's North Korea"
We know how north Korea is doing by the interviews with the escaped slaves
Hungry
They’re poor that’s how they are
Not good, they are not ok
North Korea is bad, M’kay?
I’ll have to step in if North Korea keeps this up
Yeah!
like you can do anything lmao
@@distantant I made that mistake once. All I can say is i never will again
damn callum chill mah nigga
No, Callum. Rest more now, warrior. Your fight is coming, and it will be enough for a thousand lifetimes.
hi, could you please make a video about what exactly is nuclear and why some countries have it or don't? thanks and love your videoss!!!
@@wetbadger2 please use the space bar
Really enjoy your content thank you for for the videos. One piece of prime feedback: avoid overuse of vocal emphasis. Many of your sentences have you stressing multiple words. If you use this vocal technique too often, it really diminishes the content. 4:18 has one sentence where "rapidly" and "prime" are both heavily stressed, and it comes off a bit distracting. If everything is important, than nothing is important. Best of luck in 2023!
his voice does give off that 'dodgy' vibe with this much stress- I agree
He's been doing that for ages and many people commented on how grating that can be, but he didn't change his over the top delivery.
6.57M subscribers, so I guess it works for him. This is how he orders takeout.
It is REALLY grating.. I HAVE more than ONCE stopped viewing his VIDEOS because of THIS
It happens most with the words having a "H" in them. A form of vocal technique to control mild stuttering perhaps? It eludes me why would anyone choose to speak like that unless to overcome slight phonetic issues.
Harold coyle, a retired army officer wrote an excellent novel about a confrontation between the US and north Korea resulting in a conventional war called "team Yankee" all of his novels are excellent, team Yankee is one of my favorites, also highly recommend "the ten thousand" a modern version of Xenophon's story
You should probably read about the Actual Korean war instead of masterbatory jingoism. We Lost. Then Macarther reinvaded and fought nk to a draw. That fantasy bullshit is cancerous
Coyle also wrote a novel about a U.S. invasion of Mexico and published it years before the WOT got us into Iraq. I think it was a pretty fair assessment of what we’d encounter if the events actually occurred. No more 19th Century gunboat diplomacy.
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A military sergeant told me all the usa soldiers stationed n South Korea would die if war pop off
MacArthur: Nuke Em!
Truman: No!
MacArthur: NUKE EM!
Truman: NO!
MacArthur: AH COME ON!
Truman: You’re fired!
@Oversimplified!
MacArthur had no means or authority to nuke korea
But McArthur wanted Truman to nuke China…
Dude so uncool
Should've nuked em
This is a very well made video with balanced perspectives. The geopolitical concerns North Korea and China have that are quite valid (which aren't covered much elsewhere), and the sticky situation with South Korea, rather than glossing over with the usual "China / NK bad" or something. ❤
Once again, you re making history with your exceptional knowledge and videos. I ve learned a lot from you across all these years
BUT NORTH KOREA IS ACTUALLY GOOD
@@NigerianCrusaderOK fam.
Re-making history is a bad thing
You should do some fact checking he's been wrong or misconstrued about things multiple times
@@Gunsmoke2220 In another video of his, relevant to Russia and the ongoing war in Ukraine, I wrote in the comments below that he 's kinda obsessed with how evil Russia is, without referring to America's key role for hundreds of wars globally..
That population thing was very interesting. The next 20-30 years are going to be really interesting. Lots of countries going to have big population crisis with other country's like Nigeria having booms
Or canada. For almost 10 years(half a birth cycle) their immigration rate has been 3x their birth rate.
I'm guessing in 10 years canada is gone
@@dean9261 gone to whom
@@boerandemo7766 Mexican Influence always results in a drug infested region . Canada is done for.
@@boerandemo7766 shortest answer is it's a transfer of power from federal to provincial and municipal governments to the UN-regional-microstates and municipal.
A supranational layer of governance is being added, and provincial government is being divided into regional and microstates
But to answer as to whom, all governments work for banking corporations.
These corporations all have slices of the pie worldwide and the middle of the pie is unknown to me.
@@boerandemo7766 *the big kick in the crotch about how canada is being divided is that when the npcs rise up they will blame immigrants instead of themselves and our government.
To be clear. The US would never let an NK missile attack on any US asset go unanswered. Pyongyang would be a molten sea of glass if they did so.
One of the biggest points is the huge amount of casualties. If we sent something they’d retaliate. NK can’t send anything for the same reason
hope so. If like that, what will dictators Putin and Xi react then...
I totally agree. NK most likely will never attack, but it’s it’s more about just fluffing up the feathers to stop anyone from coming in or mear
And then China and Russia get involved and retaliate, and then everything becomes a glass crater.
Yep, it would rain death if that happened.
As a patriotic Chinese, I respect your decency of actively explaining our reasonable strategy, rather than joining mass media saying things without any proof.
amazing, simple, to-the-point explanation of a 70 years long confrontation.
Ukraine has to redevelop its nuclear weapons.
@@bilboriches7216lol. Gave it away. Would have been #3 nuke power.
@@borisyurinov4822 thats whst you get when you give it away. No sane country would give it up now.
@@coloradoing9172 Yep. You never trust russians, they will always betray you.
A video on the modern conflict events in Rwanda would be awesome!
I'm noticing a pattern here: it's always the money, i.e. the oil. I lived through both invasions of Iraq, so you would think I couldn't be surprised by that today. The mainstream media somehow forgets to mention that oil was involved in conflicts, so sometimes it sneaks up on you.
Imperialism is real.
I'll save y'all 30 mins of your life. Summary of the vid is North Korea says nukes go boom, everybody scared
The video is good, I’d rather watch it
@@RyderHarrison-d2g it is good!
I *_looove_* these extra long videos that go deep into the topics!
We all know the best channels on UA-cam are the educational channels, and even among them, you're To 5.
yet people are complaining about the length and detailed explanation; you can't win on here
The North Korean population pyramid, however, does suggest a very high infant mortality rate (shocking, I know), rather casting doubt on the idea that North Korea's population will quickly outgrow that of the South.
Yeah, there are a lot more factors that go into projecting future demographics then outlined in the video. Which isn’t to say the South Korea, China and Japan aren’t all facing stiff demographic challenges. They are. It’s just that there are more factors at play then simply birth rates.
Maybe the shocking facts about N.K was propaganda after all
He never said outgrown the South, just that they will be more or less similar to each other and with NK men serving for 10 yrs vs SK men serving for 18 months, NK will have a much larger and much more experienced army 30 yrs in the future
@@OptimisticNihilist15 experienced in what tho. nk never fought war outside korean war
@@QWERTY-gp8fd Also, given Russia's performance as of late, I am somewhat skeptical that North Korea's army is anything more than a paper tiger.
Not condoning North Korea and their evil. But it makes sense for them to have nuclear weapons as a deterrent.
I feel bad for the people in North Korea that cannot get out
yeah man
I feel good that there are still people who can watcv a vid like this and not dehumanize and demonize people od NC
They can hop on one of them rockets to get out! 😬
For the most part they don't know what they're missing out on and think most if not all countries are as bad so most probably don't want to leave
I don't. Ha
Today's fact: Eugene Aldrin, the father of the famous moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan.
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Can’t wait for tomorrow’s
nice
That’s actually a lot more interesting that this rim jobbing Kim jong nk video
What!!!...???
Something I have suspected for a long time is this. Because of mutually assured annihilation, countries with nuclear capabilities, do not need to fear being invaded, or attacked conventionally, because in a phase of being destroyed, they can just launch their missiles, likely starting the end of the world. If I was a high ranking general, my number one priority in weapons, research would be developing a way to intercept or disable launched Weapons of mass destruction. Because everybody having a gun to the others head means we all lose but if one had the ability to make it, so everybody else has guns don’t fire that leaves only us holding the gun. Since the end of the Cold War, I imagine this has been a high priority. And we The public have no idea that technologies our military has. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying that at any given time are military has technology that is 10 years more advanced than what is available to the public for obvious reasons. I sure hope we have something like this, but if we don’t, it is shortly in the works, and not just by us. Whoever is able to successfully create a means to make nuclear weapons, inert or not a threat. That country will be the new world superpower.
It’s called MAD for a reason.
Yea, there are batteries of Patriot missiles deployed in Eastern Europe and the pacific
Patriot Launching Station, look em up been around for a long time now
14:30 the old man sleeping is the best part of this video
Great video. The only thing I disagree with is the talk about tactical nuclear weapons. Even though they are much smaller in scale, the use of them will inevitably lead to the use of strategic nuclear weapons, making them inherently strategic
Tactical nuclear weapons isn't even an official term used by militaries. Just high or low yield. You're right in that any use of nuclear weapons opens the box for more escalation into high grade 'strategic' nuclear missiles that can level cities...
Exactly. William Spaniel (sp?) is a UA-camr who’s an expert on Ukraine - Russia and he talked about that. He mentioned a tactical nuclear bomb use opens up the possibility of a full nuclear attack.
@@Joe125g20 yeah, but that's the point of them too, is not using them, is the treat of using them and eliminating a american responses in seconds...
suddenly, all that carrier and bases became a big easy target than a deterrence against the north.
specially as the vietnam war (and iraq and afghanistan war) proved... USA population is sensible to causalities and will not enter in a war that will kill millions happy...
The detail you go into in your videos is remarkable 👌🏼 I applaud you for that because it's rare these days. I've heard WWII stories that were absolutely gruesome so I don't think you telling factual history is wrong. When did UA-cam start censoring history?
they don't necessarily 'censor' it, the terms and conditions on how modern conflicts and contraversial topics are treated is a bit of a grey area and can lead to easy demonitisation, then the algorithm kicks in and either doesn't promote the video or age restricts it - not saying this is 100% the reasoning but its how far i understand it to be.
It's not censored. At least 80% of UA-cams viewers are under the age of 18 and promoting violent, sexual or otherwise inappropriate material to children would chase away advertisers and start forcing parents to ban their children from UA-cam altogether grossly lowering revenues which you might not care about but would cause your favorite creators to not be able to do this for a living because UA-cam wouldn't be able to pay them.
Is not allowing children to purchase pornography or watch ultra violent movies censorship? No, it's just common sense.
I love this creator and they have nearly 7 million subscribers so it's safe to say the UA-cam algorithm has actually been incredibly kind to them.
Not to mention how many channels out there pump out straight up propaganda and push agenda driven narratives painting history and current affairs in a light favorable to their political affiliation and obviously monitoring that content is very difficult.
UA-cam is so large and ubiquitous now it's not unreasonable to expect it to follow the same guidelines as other mainstream broadcasters.
When it's fake
Informative & Interesting as always i appreciate your work RLL!
With all of the hardened targets and miles of tunnel systems N. Korea has, the island hopping of WWII would seem like a holiday. Never under estimate your opponent.
here aren't any hardened targets.
So many nations people and governments don’t take demography seriously enough in their national interests. Lots of western countries for example are potentially sleep walking into disaster. It will be interesting to see how South Korea and Japan try address this issue, doesn’t seem to be an easy solution any time soon
Russia is one of them as well, their population is decreasing since the end of URSS
I heard they already have some programs to incentivize new immigrants
lab born babies, like in the new brave world
@@tenzingyatso5096 problem even with that is a lot of young people don’t want children even if they could skip pregnancy and childbirth, their too distracted with holidays, shopping, socialising and less responsibility.. you wouldn’t have enough people wanting to parent
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Or becoming a soldier to protect a psycho ruler who would hang you for enjoying an American song by Elvis 😅
Robots and AI maybe? I dunno. Slavery? Oh.... Both! Both is good!
(this is supposed to be verry dark irony! pls dont get me publicly executed like im in *some countries* !)
Reallifelore. Thank you for your time and effort in making this video possible.
The only issue with this - you know that the moment a single nuke goes out - US would rather eradicate whole North Korea than risk losing more people and cities. I wouldn't underestimate them, especially as they already have a history of using nukes to end conflicts swiftly.
It's not so much about nukes. We will throw endless resources and people for two decades into a war and still lose. Then move on and learn nothing. Our government isn't us though. We have little to no say in anything....just like North Korea, but we have food.
If North Korea fires a nuke at us, I sure hope we do. It’s horrible for the NK people… but we would have to put an immediate end to it before we would suffer more loses. What should we do? Try to invade them while they keep nuking our cities? Say you better not do it again? No… complete destruction of their regime. Which would probably obliterate the majority of their country. But it would have to be done immediately without second though
Well normally I’d say just because there’s a precedent doesn’t mean there’s conviction however given the context of how it happened the first time, you’re probably right.
Id say the axis of evil speech was pretty accurate, one of the few times the man sounded coherant
The one factor that came to mind that can be an option by S. Korea is if say 30 years from now they don't have the man power to fill their military needs. S. Korea has the economic, infrastructure and technological advantage and As A.I and robotics tech improves. They devote their efforts in R&D in those fields and start creating a robotic army.
Robotic armies are a fools errand, not only would it be extremely expensive and unrealistic , it wouldn't matter in the long run as electronic warfare and anti-drone capabilities improve and make such armies obsolete, also a 50 cal doesn't care if it hits flesh or metal
It's simply unhealthy and uninspiring for a nation to outsource military duty to robots, you might as well castrate all those spiritual eunuchs at that point, such cowardly ppl don't deserve to be saved in case of invasion
You can hack or emp electronics, humans are a resource that is still reliable even then. The more common sense choice is to increase immigration, there are countries in the world that are having a population boom, encourage their integration, and education to give them tools to integrate into their society to help their economic situation and military situation.
So North Korea is the evil dystopia but replacing us all with A.I for the rich and powerful 1% isn't?
robotic army is too hard to do with our technology, and no one will choose that when it will be useless against bombs and nukes
@@halinaqi2194Asian countries don't like the idea of immigration unfortunately
North Korea would need to consider how China, about their only ally, would react to them starting a war since China wouldn't want a war disrupting their economic growth
consider the current relationship between China and NK, I would said Kim don't really care about China. Putin is now Kim's BFF.
What economic growth? 2022 Chinese economy is the worst (other than the start of Covid) since the last year of Mao Zedong, 1976.
@@graceliu8839 1 year is like nothing in long-term period for any country
Until they would consider / want a war to test their power again... possibly in the future whenever they will "over take" USA.
Really love this channel's geopolitics videos, it explain why the world stage is the way it is.
Its the way it is because of Republicans and thats a straight up fact.
Not really. This guy gives extremely metaphysical takes, which leaves out so much interplay and nuance. This is genuinely textbook propaganda, with enough words to make it sound like a holistic perspective when it literally intentionally leaves out an incredible amount of perspectives , history , and politics
His Scotland nato video was plain wrong, I am about to learn about this one
From the USAs perspective. This is CIA propaganda
@@majinreclaimer4457 Agreed... he's to geopolitics what McDonalds is to hamburgers.
Nice presentation. As for demonetization, Utube had no problems posting ads:11
I firmly believe there is no such thing as a limited tactical nuclear exchange. Escalation is inevitable.
No USA government would accept a nuclear attack on their troops or soil without retaliation in kind.
Great content. Made me think back on that trump/kim agreement to disarm nukes in Korea. Based on this info, it wouldn't make sense for Korea to agree to that if it increases the risk of being invaded. It neither states that the us will disarm nukes as well, which is a pretty amusing one-sided arrangement.
Yea. NK has referenced Lebanon and Iraq as reasons why they got nukes
@@frankxu1407isn't NK in alliance with China?
@@Vario69 a friendship of mutual convenience
I’m a Korean/American living in Korea for 20 years. Enjoyed the video. The information is fairly accurate and legit. The low birth rate is actually much lower (0.78) . China does support N Korea. N korea shooting missiles across is a daily thing here. I used to hear bomb sirens when I moved here and got scared , but now they don’t play the siren anymore for some reason. Sad to say but you get used to missile launches here and it doesn’t phase the S Koreans (or at least not as much as people would think so). N Korea has threatened for so long and its also a way of trying to get money from S Korea due to sanctions. N korea is not stupid enough to attack S Korea due to the US military , but it is true that S Korea wanting to arm itself w/ nukes too. It’s crazy reality but everybody here seems to erase it w/ K-pop & k dramas.
Disgusts me that they spent this many resources on military instead of feeding their own people
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Could be the same thing for any nations that has nuclear weapons including the US, it is disgraceful that they have over 5000 nuclear weapons.
As a North Korean, I can confirm that I'm unstoppable. Even my dad can't stop me.
Any conflict breaking out for them would spell the end of their regime, I would think. Getting a tactical nuke certainly makes them difficult to deal with, but unless they become unhinged and are willing to throw it all away, there isn't much else they can really do outside of posturing.
They ARE unhinged
@@noidsuperexcept if NK declared open war by launching nukes they'd swiftly get rained down upon. Nuclear war is a zero sum game, but the ones initiating it stand to lose even more than the ones getting hit by the initial nuke. It's why even 1 and a half years after Putin's invasion of Ukraine, with all those threats of using nuclear arms, it hasn't happened once. Putin knows if he launches nukes he will well and truly be on his own. Xi cannot defend the use of nukes while trying to maintain the sovereignty stance. It would immediately escalate the invasion and get NATO involved.
If NK started launching nukes they'd get a swift response from the West, SK, and Japan
@@noidsuperunhinged, yes. Willing to throw it all away, clearly not.
@@josh___somethingif kim knows he will lose his land he will 100% fire everything in his arsenal onto the world killing 10+ million people nobody wants that which is exactly why nobody interferes with NK they sit on the longer lever
Yeah, I agree they are unhinged@@noidsuper. Both things need to be true, I would think. Like josh said, it doesn't seem like they willing to give up what they have just yet.
"North Korea, A real life example of what happened when you give a kid, a Minecraft server"
- W̶e̶n̶d̶o̶v̶e̶r̶ HAI-chan(edit).
IDK, a Minecraft server is better to live in than North Korea.
No, the quote was by made half as interesting which is run by the same person
@@frommarkham424 My mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.
When I was a child , my family lived in Liaoning , a province in northeastern China that borders North Korea. Every time there was a missile test, we were all filled with fear because we didn’t trust their technology. Being so close, even a small mistake could have wiped out our city. To this day, I still remember nervously watching the news with my grandmother many years ago!
South Korea's centralized economic power is actually the biggest weakness of South Korea itself, seeing how close their productive region is to North Korea, just one brutal attack will paralyze most of their economy. this is why south korea is actually very dependent on US security guarantees. this is the answer why high GDP, high economic growth does not always reflect the real strength of a country. even if the war finally happen, the society on the south korea cant go to other country to save their life cause geographic condition is not on their side. if they run to north that will be worst option, if they move to the south, the sea is biggest threat for them. This is the nightmare of natural prison
@Abhijeet Kundu not everyone lives near the coast
@Abhijeet Kundu while vast majority live nera the coast, not everyone does, that's what i mean. Like those in Daegu and Daejeon, the infrastructure leading to the coast can easily be severed in case of war, and they certainly don't have something to cross the sea.
Hell Joseon
South Korea would suffer but the technology difference between them is too great for the north to be able to pull off any victory without using nukes. The South Koreans don't need the US to gain air superiority, they can do it by themselves because the stuff the north flies and AA systems they use are so old they stand no chance against a modern air force.
@@SoundsOfTheWild3 true
This makes me remember being stationed at SOCPAC when that bombardment happened in 2010. I worked in he Command Center but not in any operation capacity (VTC Tech XD) But never the less, I remember getting called in, confused as to what was going on, for a few hours a hand full of us sat in the CC and talked about the beginning of WWIII and How we were going to remember where we were when it started. Surreal stuff, thinking about it now we were all completely convinced that was the beginning. Wasn't even that we were worried the North or China was going to make the first move either. The concern was that the South was going to just lose patience with it all.
The only thing I don’t like about nebula is that we’re not able to give a like to the videos on there. You all work so hard on making fantastic content on there and you all deserve some form of positive feedback from us❤️
Nebula platform has some issues. No likes or dislikes. No comments. And only one saved folder (watch later). I like to save some videos I’ve already watched but can’t do playlist.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Even thought Nebula could be improved on (like anything can be improved) I still think it's a very great use of the money that went to paying a year of it. It cost me like 19€/year and there's so much great content!
You made 6k km high look like 100000 km
I was watching an interview video of south koreans, a lot say they are focusing on careers and cant afford kids but they want kids. I think partially what you have to do is force rich corporations to give moms more affordable bills (internet, energy, cell phone, car, rent being the most important). Especially based on wealth brackets obviously the intent on helping lower income mothers is important, but also incentivizing more well off mothers to have kids in any ways possible. While also making sure moms have career flexibility to raise kids and job security to feel safe. Theres more to it but I think this would be a basic start. These are things moms need in order to feel more secure to raise kids. And immigration also will help.
Everything said is good excepting the last sentence
@@casualpasser-by5954 That is the most realiable way of not having a labor shortage. It's also a tested statergy that makes up for low birth rates whereas incentives for having kids has (till now) not caused dramatic increase in child birth in any county where it's a problem.
@@HemantKumar-id3jg You will later have problems regarding culture, especially when they don't match.
@@zerefsunlimitedshipworks Depends on how many you let in, and how similar their culture is.
Garbage last point
NK using a nuke would result in retaliatory nuclear strikes hitting every major military location within hours. It would be the end of NK. Honestly, too horrible to even think about.
You don't have to actually win a war to be dangerous
They know that. They’re doing it for political power. The North Korean gdp is pathetic. They provide absolutely nothing to the world. Yet America is in constant proximity to NK on the political stage which is power in itself. We negotiate their whims and wishes because we’re too level headed to play the matador, for now.
The North would still cause catastrophic devastation to the South and Japan, possibly even irreversible
@@alexs_toy_barn oh I know. Just sayin NK would turn to glass.
@@Aaron-cb2dd yup
Iraq didn't willingly give up its nuclear weapons because it never had any , thier Reactor got destroyed by isarel a bit before desert Strom happened before it even had the chance to start operating , Isarel used like 8 F16s to do that
This same type of operation also happened against Syria...
EDIT : Ukraine was way more complex then Just "Security grantees " , Ukraine had no access to these weapon what's so ever , as all the codes were in the hands of the Moscow based forces and they werent about to say a thing , Further The US had actually prepared a financial aid package for all Eastern block with a condition of disarmament...
Baiscly Ukraine didn't had the money to hold/maintenane or reverse engineer it , Nore did it the means to use it or even the army to hold it while the attmpet of revesere engineering these happens , The political backing wasn't really there either , in a scene getting ride of these weapons like Belarus and kazhaksten was the only safe thing to do and the security grantee that "this is Ukraine" was about the best they could get with it
AND Israel's attacks on Iraq and Syria were, internationally, very illegal. There is a difference between GIVING UP something and having it taken from you.
Iraq didn't give up nuclear weapons but it served as an example of what it can mean to be a non-nuclear country on United States' bad side. Especially when you compare that to Russia where US don't even dare directly intervene in Ukraine.
For NK this is a clear sign: if you don't have nuclear weapons, you're prey. If you do have them... then even invading South might be an option since US might end up hesitant to really throw their weight behind it if NK threatens nuclear retaliation in such case.
@@Eliastion Yeah, ngl I have always been curious at the idea of how NK or other regimes would react if U.S. Just decided to go through anyway, like would they just accept mutual destruction and fire the nukes or back down as well, and maintain a conventional war.
@@Eliastion North Korea probably got like four nuclear weapon. And trust me they won’t use it. Just like usa say if you ever use it they will be erase from world map. True story
@Eliastion in his vod it made it sound like They "willingly gaved up nukes that they controlled " which in either of the cases mentioned , they didn't Controll or even owned them , in Iraq case they didn't even had it
The only one case of a state willingly giving a way Nukes that they owned controlled and fully operated by themselves was Aperthied south Africa, which did so because the white minority ruling party didn't trust the black majority party with these weapons , and So... Scrapped!
Baiscly RLL was kinda of misleading with the way he said it..
Putting Iran in the Axis of Evil caused so much harm to the US-Iran relationship. Iran was putting a real hurting on the Taliban in the northern territories. That state of the union address effectively took Iran out of the fight against Taliban and the al-Qaeda overnight.
Iran also sponsors terrorism. Just because you fight someone bad it doesn't make you good.
The Bush legacy. I recall how shocked I was with the cavalier use of the word crusade when Bush spoke after 911. It took the pundits 2 days to pick up on it . Leaders should know some history.
To be fair, while Iran were co-operating with the US in northern Afghanistan, they were also funding movements to destabilise western Afghanistan. There were also reports saying that Zarqawi fled across the border into Iran to seek refuge along with AQ fighters in 2001. Whilst officially Iranian police were actively looking for him and even “arrested” him in 2002, Jordanian intelligence say that Zarqawi had “friends here and there” within Irans government/intelligence. There are also rumours that Iranian intelligence encouraged him to act against American forces in the Middle East. Not to mention the countless Hezbollah attacks carried out against Americans.
Tldr: Iran was helping US in northern Afghan but were simultaneously having hezbollah attack US troops and were openly funding and aiding terrorists within the Middle East. They deserved to be included in the Axis of Evil.
Sure, that is probably true, but it is also an asshat of a country creating completely unnecessary misery for millions for personal egoboosting of the leadership. It really is an evil government when one considers its domestic and particularly its foreign policy. It is difficult to decide whether we should be honest, or say whatever is politically convenient in that scenario. Iran persecutes gays and women with abandon. While not the worst country in that regard, it is definitely not a great country to ally with, such alliances would only ever be allies of convenience (like Arabia). Worse yet is their support for overt terrorists who deliberately target innocent civilians.
@@martinphilip8998 I guess. But, I don’t see a problem with it. The Crusades were very complex campaigns with very diverse sets of objectives and methods. Some were barbaric, others were hilariously incompetent, and everything in between.
I'm going to South Korea in a few weeks and it doesn't phase me one bit.
What does shock me to me core though is that the Bush Axis of Evil speech turns 21 years old on Sunday.
Modern conflicts is amazing. Everyone here needs to go watch it
Thank you for sharing information and analysis, at the risk of demonetization.
What is the nuclear fall out of these tactical nukes? I figured a major region to avoid using nuclear weaponry(other then retaliation) is because it left the land unusable for a number of years.
I really enjoy your videos! Please create a video about the stuff happening in the last 4 months in Iran, thanks!
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this world is doomed.....to much hate and never enough peace. sad
when you move the map around to show different pov really helps show the situation on how usa has these countries trapped
Great video and I hate the fact that it might get demonetized!
Maybe this is a hot take, but despite my general disapproval of nuclear weapons, both Koreas are more than justified in (*potentially* for South Korea) acquiring them.
not the biggest fan of NK but you cant deny they have their reasons. the US would do the same if it was somehow in a similar situation.
@@azaz20244 Regardless of your feelings on any country, self preservation is a pretty understandable goal for any government to have
@@emperorcorning8329 exactly. above every thing else, comes self-preservation. thats why we saw the Iranian government taking drastic measures earlier. They were in full regime-survival mode.
@@azaz20244 to be fair iraq already had a reputation for using chemical weapons, especially on civilian population
@@PosterityIslesNews im not fond of the old iraqi and syrian regimes but that brings up the argument of whether or not the rest of the world should have gotten involved. there are many other conflicts happening right now that we are staying out of.
Don't forget that north Korea have world largest ship - submarine fleet,
Obviously not the most modern advanced fleet.
But could sure do some damage.
China has the biggest Navy, whatever N Korea has it's not close to comparable. And while China has a couple shitty aircraft carriers, the United States is in possession of 6 or 7 I believe, and they're city huge.
Your videos are always fascinating and not to mention, very informative. Truly, I actually really enjoy listening and just kind of gathering an understanding of the world and its ongoing.
anyways, thx, its excellent content. ☯️🙏
Same here, one of my all-time hands down favorite UA-cam channels.
Very well done, always expect top quality from RLL !