“The reprocessing of fuel rods into plutonium by NK has provided that raw material. There has been some debate about the NK nuclear test results. Some believe they were “fizzles” due to the impurities in the plutonium. “
I lived in SK for 3 years while in the Air Force. The North has a lot of problems but they aren’t to be underestimated. Especially since China would probably side with them if a shooting war started.
The population of the North has grown up in a culture where children report on their parents and brothers report on brothers. Family is incredibly important to them and yet they have broken many of those bonds.
Or is it that their familial instincts have been conditioned to see their nation as their family with their dear leader as their father?