Will N Korea, ever use a nuclear device?

Answer 1

Not unless that high-heeled lunatic wants to see his country turned into a glowing parking lot.

Answer 2

It doesn't bear thinking about if they ever do. Lets say they used one on South Korea, Japan, or maybe the west coast of the USA. No doubt the USA would retaliate. And I'm pretty certain China would then get involved and it may even escalate to be a truly global situation.
...However I can't see it happening to be fair. North Korea is utterly bankrupt and its people are starving thanks to communist propaganda and the 'need' to have nuclear capability. Not even I think the country would be daft enough to randomly fire off a nuke and then risk retaliation, it wouldn't stand a chance. We need the respective leaders of N. Korea, China and the USA plus the wider global community to stand back and stay calm and resolve the issue.

Answer 3

Quite possibly, and if they do then we're all done for, because some stupid **** is sure to retaliate and the world will be destroyed in an afternoon.
That is the only real detterent from using them - the futility of nuclear war; there can never be a winner - just hope that the North Koreans realise this, or better still, try not to think about these things.

Answer 4

DPRK military policy focuses on maintaining and sustaining a military force capable of conducting an offensive operation into the ROK to attain the national goal of reunifying the peninsula. It is based on three fundamental and interconnected concepts shaped by the late Kim Il-song's vision of the future of the Korean Peninsula:

Eventual reunification,

DPRK regime and leadership survival and

the application of military force to achieve these goals

The North Korean regime is regularly portrayed in the Western as the lunatics in charge of the asylum. The traditional US deterrence posture rested on the ability to launch a devastating counter-strike against any country that used weapons of mass destruction against America, its allies or deployed forces.

Such measures worked against the Soviet Union, whose leaders were rational and risk-averse, but some argue that they may not deter rogue states such as N Korea, whose leaders are indifferent to their people's welfare.

Although North Korea's strategies and tactics can be (sometimes purposely) baffling, the country is being run by extremely intelligent and very rational people with a strongly developed sense of self-preservation. The N Korean acquisition of weapons of mass destruction stems not from an indifference to deterrence, but rather a keenly developed understanding of the uses of deterrence.

One principal lesson of the Gulf War is that, if a state intends to fight the US, it should avoid doing so until and unless it possesses nuclear weapons.

The DPRK and the U.S. are in the relationship of belligerency and at war technically. Therefore, it is quite natural that the DPRK has manufactured nukes for self-defence and continues to do so to cope with the policy of the Bush administration aimed at mounting a preemptive nuclear attack on it.

The short answer is N Korea has used their nuclear weapons in their military planning, economic and political strategies for extracting resources from the west..

Answer 5

Nuclear devices are just a way to show how cocky every country is, i doubt any country would make a use of it. No matter against who the device is sent it would start a chain of nuclear bombs that would sweep the earth, it is absolutely illogical.

Answer 6

Not if they have any sense. They would attract massive retaliation. The trouble is that you canot rely on North Korea's dictator to have any sense.

The United States and Japan would dearly like to know the answer to this question!

Answer 7

Never underestimate a lunatic like Kim Jong Il.

Answer 8

a

Answer 9

i doubt it because they on;y have one compared to the hundreds we have. so if they use it on us or another country they're screwed.

Answer 10

as easily yes as no, especially if there antagonised