Russia's International Institute for Political and Economic Strategies does not rule out a nuclear war from North Korea because it has been provoked by Washington, while America is focusing its attention on the nuclear weapons of China and Russia.
The director of the institute, Elena Panina, said in an article on the institute's website that the available information is that the countries that possess nuclear weapons in the world are 9, but Western strategists are absent from the picture and talk about it in the language of sanctions and economic blackmail without taking into account its nuclear potential in global plans.
In 2017, former US President Donald Trump sent a group of US naval forces to the shores of North Korea, including the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vincennes and its escort ships, and in response, North Korean President Kim Jong-un revealed that his country has dozens of facilities to launch ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.
Kim also warned of the possibility of pressing the button to launch these weapons, which could hit the territory of South Korea, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, Guam and other nearby US military bases, and the possibility of them reaching the west coast of America in the event of aggression by NATO.
The West initiates provocation
The author warned against the American and Western focus on Russia and China and ignoring North Korea, which could be more dangerous than Moscow and Beijing. Panina then tried to argue that the West was the initiator of actions that provoke Russia, such as London's announcement of supplying Ukraine with depleted uranium ammunition and Russia's response by deploying nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil.
Instead of drawing reasonable conclusions and sitting at the negotiating table, the United States and the European Union exaggerated the matter and enlisted the Western press to talk about the "Russian threat," and the "anti-Russian" Poland took an overreaction that is not unlikely to request the deployment of nuclear weapons on its territory, which would have serious repercussions for it.
America is clinging to its current image
She pointed out that the United States is looking for a way out in the face of the tripartite nuclear competition (America, China, and Russia) after realizing that it will not be able to bring its opponents to its knees and intimidate its opponents under the current circumstances, and did not rule out that Washington will cause the world to slide towards nuclear war due to its lack of interest in establishing peace in it as much as its interest in maintaining its image as the "strongest country" and dictating the rules of global politics in a way that serves its interests.
Panina stated that China's nuclear weapons are bothering the United States and pushing it to ignore the nuclear warheads in the possession of North Korea, believing that only two countries have a nuclear arsenal among competing countries, and continuing the policy of ignoring, Pyongyang can burn the territory of America's allies in Asia and the Pacific, and in the meantime, Pyongyang conducted on April 13 a test of a solid-fuel intercontinental missile similar to Russian TobolM or RS-24Yaris missiles.
Pyongyang is ready
Citing North Korean sources, Panina said the missile was the main type of strategic weapon used by North Korea's armed forces, and that the North Korean president declared that the missile would enable his country to launch "a rapid and effective nuclear counterattack that inflicts losses on enemies and terrorizes them until they realize their mistakes."
The article pointed out that the Biden administration announced a plan to develop a new thermonuclear warhead for submarine missiles and plan to fully modernize the US nuclear arsenal, including factories, strategic aviation, fleet and land-based missiles with a rearmament budget of about two trillion dollars, which increases the risk of a global nuclear war.