Kim Jong-un will be following the Ukrarine war – and the West’s reaction to the Kremlin’s threats – very closely, to see if nuclear coercion is working 🔴 Analysis from michael2day
“China and North Korea will be watching to see if nuclear coercion is working against Ukraine’s attempts to defend itself. Russia needs to lose – and it needs to be seen to lose – to ensure this doesn’t happen,” says William Alberque, the Berlin-based director of strategy, technology, and arms control at the International Institute for Strategic Studies,
Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute of International Affairs in Rome, agrees that North Korea will be gauging the effectiveness of nuclear blackmail in Ukraine, but adds that other potential nuclear powers will also be watching. A motley collection of politicians, activists and commentators, from the populist far-right in the US and Hungary, to Russia’s traditional leftist sympathisers in Italy, insist that Nato’s acceptance of eastern European nations seeking safety from Russian aggression has recklessly provoked Moscow, and that Western policies risk provoking a nuclear confrontation.
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