>>507721387You are the retard here who has no clue about North Korea.
The artillery is one reason, but why would the regime even pursue the nukes if they were so confident that it would be enough? You know the North Korean system is one of the only "socialist" systems that survived the fall of the USSR and the collapse of pretty much all of the similar states. It is because the leadership is not dumb - contrary to what you are told. They have adapted incredibly well, learned from others, and called out all the nuclear negotiation bluffs and just used them to play time to develop weapons. The fuck was that Kim-Trump meeting, what came out of it? Westerners are easily bamboozled by stroking their egos.
You know Obama had the security advisors give him options to strike but ultimately he decided against it because of the nuclear deterrent?
They also have mutual defense treaty with China that is very old, and China helped them against the US. But the thing with these treaties is that you never can (and never should) 100% trust them because situations change and allies might abandon you. You really think if China and Russia abandoned them, and they had no nuke and just had some lousy artillery from the 1980s, that would guarantee the regime survival?
The Mullahs in Iran are complete amateurs frankly, and that's why they will lose. I can travel to Iran easily on my passport without a visa, so why wouldn't the whole place be absolutely filled to the brim with mossad other spies.