For over 70-years Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) evaded a nuclear confrontation between the NATO west and the USSR. The concept meant that if either side rained missiles down on the other the attacked nation could respond in kind before nuclear evaporation.

No one foresaw a Washington-based Dr. Strangelove and his unhinged neo-con cronies prepared to push the envelope and risk World War III. They should have done.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has unveiled some of his country’s latest weapons. Most markedly the admission that Russia now possesses new weapons, including hypersonic missile systems which render existing US defence systems useless.

These new cutting-edge missiles will not follow traditional ballistic flight paths and cannot be intercepted by current US missile defence systems whose archaic origin dates back to Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative.

Putin doesn’t mince his words. “Nobody listened to Russia before we created new weapons systems, they will listen now. We have started development of new strategic arms that do not use ballistic flight paths while moving to targets, which means that the missile defence systems are useless in a struggle against them”.

The Russian President stated that Russia has tried for years to negotiate with the United States in respect of arms limitation treaties. But, because of the provocations and threats, including placing its own advanced missile systems on Russia’s borders, Russia took the decision to modernise its own missile systems which can now fully overcome the US challenge. Putin also stated that Russia would respond to any nuclear attack on itself or its allies with the full force of its nuclear arsenal, which is the largest in the world.

Russia’s development of new weapons constitutes Moscow’s sovereign right to respond to aggression and provocations. Apart from those in the west who challenge Russia’s right to exist, no one could classify Putin’s latest remarks in any way other than both inevitable and fully in-keeping with Russia’s legal rights and responsibility to its citizens and genuine allies.

Against this background, why then cannot North Korea develop its weapons for the very same reason? The answer is that as a country even more under threat from the US than Russia has if anything, more of a duty than Russia to develop a functional nuclear deterrent to prevent the kinds of NATO attacks that Russia seeks to defend itself against. While the Russian President said that ideally, he would like a world with fewer weapons on all sides.

As Putin stated last year, having seen what a poorly armed Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya suffered at the hands of aggressive US-led military operations, Pyongyang judged the facts on the ground to mean that if the DPRK did not develop its own modern nuclear deterrent it could be the next country to be violently destroyed by the US military.

Because of this, it is high time for the multipolar world to accept North Korea’s necessary nuclear deterrent in the same way that it tacitly accepts Russia’s.

In the wider sense, ‘we are all Koreans now’. Half of the world is under threat from the US military and the other half must do what it can to deter such an attack through the time-tested doctrine of mutually assured destruction. In either case, should there be such a war, like Koreans, much of the world would be under the threat of annihilation if one side decided to take the apocalyptic step in launching the first strike?

It seems that for a US military-industrial complex that will stop at nothing to enrich itself, the prospect of turning the world into what Donald Trump might call a ‘radioactive shithole’ might be the only thing to get the elites of the US and pan-western military-industrial complex to think twice regarding the consequences of their provocative policies. After all, a world covered in nuclear fallout is not a world where one can make money, let alone spend it.

In this new reality where mutually assured destruction is now more assured than at any time during the Cold War, due to the advanced scale of 21st-century weapons, all people of all nations, including journalists and politicians and their hapless families, should be thinking twice before provoking Russia or its Chinese ally.

President Putin implied in his remarks, that both countries have been too patient for too long with those in the west who refuse to respond to reason, but who might hopefully respond to the grim reality that while they think they are chasing the bottom line, they are really chasing their own demise in every sense of the word.

If journalists, activists, and others provoke their own governments into a confrontation with Russia, there will be no happy ending. The world has been warned.

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