[Where would they get the cruise missiles?
Their economy is in freefall, their oil is restricted, their people are in turmoil. And somehow a dozen cruise missiles appear out of nowhere to make a strike.
Yes, anti-Trump bad actors need a war to distract and stop the takedown of their network.]
The North Korean economy is in far worse shape than Iran’s - people are actually starving to death in North Korea. And yet the country has come up with ballistic missile mounted nukes. Note that the Iranians have fired hundreds of ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia from Yemen at a cost of about $1m per missile. Iran is not a sub-Saharan country. It is a fairly significant power with a population of 80m people, that held off an Iraq funded by the wealth of the combined Gulf kingdoms for almost a decade, during the Iran-Iraq war. It cannot defeat the US in conventional battle. But it could probably unify the Middle East under its rule in fairly short order.
> “And yet the country has come up with ballistic missile mounted nukes.”
No, NK did not come up with those missiles. They were supplied. That’s the point.