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Originally Posted by alpal
Meanwhile - we have no missile defense & no nuclear deterrent
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No-one does!
As far as I know the only anti ballistic missile defense system to ever be functional was the one around Moscow near the end of the cold war. Even the US never had anything that could successfully stop incoming Soviet nukes, especially those riding on MIRVs.
These days the technology is focused on stopping the rocket on its way up, like that crazy giant laser in the back of a 747 that the US have tested, but I don't think any of it's operational, or even practical, yet.
Even today, if - completely hypothetically - someone launched a few ballistic missiles from Russia towards the US there's really not much anyone can do about it.
I suppose stopping a single Nork rocket would be significantly easier but, as has already been mentioned, they don't have all the technologies they need to deliver a bomb via a rocket, yet.
No matter how brainwashed they are, surely those at the top in North Korea know that using a nuclear device as a weapon against anyone would mean the end of their country as they know it.