<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> has built up its nuclear arsenal at a rate that has far outpaced U.S. estimates and is projected to have 1,000 nuclear warheads by the end of the decade, according to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-defense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Defense</a> (DOD).
The Pentagon <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3230682/china-military-power-report-examines-changes-in-beijings-strategy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a report on China’s military on Tuesday stating that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has accelerated its nuclear program. China’s current purpose in building up its nuclear arsenal appears to be deterrence and retaliation, if necessary, according to information collected by the U.S. government.
“In 2020, the DoD estimated China’s operational nuclear warhead stockpile was in the low-200s and expected to at least double by 2030. However, Beijing probably accelerated its nuclear expansion, and DoD estimates this stockpile has now surpassed 400 operational nuclear warheads,” the <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/29/2003122279/-1/-1/1/2022-MILITARY-AND-SECURITY-DEVELOPMENTS-INVOLVING-THE-PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> states.
“By 2030, DoD estimates that the PRC will have about 1,000 operational nuclear warheads, most of which will be fielded on systems capable of ranging the continental United States,” it continued.
The Pentagon estimates that by 2035, China’s People’s Liberation Army could have as many as 1,500 operational nuclear warheads at its disposal.
“The PRC probably intends to develop new nuclear warheads and delivery platforms that at least equal the effectiveness, reliability, and/or survivability of some of the warheads and delivery platforms currently under development by the United States and/or Russia,” the report says. “Developing robust nuclear strike options is likely intended to provide deterrence predominantly against a ‘strong enemy,’ as well as ensure China can inflict unacceptable damage with both proportionate and overwhelming retaliatory capabilities, and thus denying an adversary victory if a war escalates to the nuclear domain.”
The Pentagon estimates that China’s military has the largest navy and the third largest air force in the world. Defense officials are also skeptical of Beijing’s claims that it is adhering to agreements to limit the construction of biological and chemical weapons.
Chinese labs and factories, as well as its missile technology is advanced enough that it could weaponize biological and chemical agents or toxins and attach them to missiles, U.S. officials estimate.
“The PRC’s chemical and biotechnology infrastructures are sufficient to research, develop, and produce some chemical and biological agents or toxins on a large scale,” the report says. “China probably has the technical expertise to weaponize chemical and biological warfare (CBW) agents, and China’s robust armaments industry and numerous conventional weapon systems, including missiles, rockets, and artillery, probably could be adapted to deliver CBW agents.”
U.S.-China relations have grown more tense recent years along with the outbreak of COVID-19 and China’s increasingly aggressive moves in its region, such as taking control of Hong Kong and threatening Taiwan. U.S. President Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House in November. Among other topics, the leaders discussed the use of nuclear weapons.
“President Biden raised Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine and Russia’s irresponsible threats of nuclear use. President Biden and President Xi reiterated their agreement that a nuclear war should never be fought and can never be won and underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine,” a White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/14/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-meeting-with-president-xi-jinping-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">readout</a> of the meeting says.

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David Sacks, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tech</a> entrepreneur who has been a key figure at major companies like PayPal, warned during an interview Tuesday night that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/apple" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple</a> is doing the same thing in the United States that they are doing in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">communist China</a>.
Sacks made the remarks during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson when asked about how Apple can be stopped from potentially booting Twitter off its App Store.
&#8220;What Apple is doing in China is not that different from what Apple is doing in the U.S.,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They are willing to engage in censorship on a global basis on behalf of their true paymasters. And by paymasters, I don&#8217;t mean consumers — Apple has them completely locked up. What I mean is the party in power, whether that&#8217;s in Beijing or Washington.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the quid pro quo that MAGA Democrats have made — of course, by MAGA Democrats, I&#8217;m referring to Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon,&#8221; Sacks continued. &#8220;They have the most lucrative monopolies in history and want to continue minting money undisturbed. And in exchange for that, they will donate lavishly [to] the Democratic Party, and they&#8217;re willing to kneecap their political opponents with censorship if that&#8217;s what the party in power requires.&#8221;
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<blockquote>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: But in the meantime, we are very happy to be joined by David Sacks. He&#8217;s one of the founders of PayPal. He spent the last 25 years as a major figure in the tech world and has been watching very carefully what&#8217;s happening with Elon Musk after the acquisition of Twitter. David Sacks, thanks so much for coming on. If Apple did this, it would, it seems like it would effectively destroy Twitter as the force that it currently is. That would be an abuse of monopoly power. I think everyone [would] agree. What can be done to stop that?
DAVID SACKS, TECH FIGURE: Well, yeah, I agree with you, Tucker, that, you know, what Apple is doing in China is not that different from what Apple is doing in the U.S. They are willing to engage in censorship on a global basis on behalf of their true paymasters. And by paymasters, I don&#8217;t mean consumers — Apple has them completely locked up. What I mean is the party in power, whether that&#8217;s in Beijing or Washington. This is the quid pro quo that MAGA Democrats have made — of course, by MAGA Democrats, I&#8217;m referring to Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon. They have the most lucrative monopolies in history and want to continue minting money undisturbed. And in exchange for that, they will donate lavishly [to] the Democratic Party and they&#8217;re willing to kneecap their political opponents with censorship if that&#8217;s what the party in power requires.
CARLSON: You know, the traditional libertarian position on this, which I ascribed to for many years, I&#8217;ll just say it, was that, you know, the First Amendment protects Americans from having their speech hampered by the government, okay? But all speech takes place online at this point. We know that there are direct connections between the tech companies and the government currently in power, they&#8217;re censoring people at the direction of the U.S. government. So really, if you censor Twitter, you&#8217;re eliminating my right to speak freely as an American, which is a constitutional problem. So why can&#8217;t someone take action against this?
SACKS: I think you&#8217;re right. I mean, what&#8217;s basically happened here is that the government has found a kind of loophole in the First Amendment. The First Amendment as stated, it only applies to government, to Congress. But if the government can basically get big tech to do its censorship for it, it can claim that this was done by private actors. The problem is that the town square has been privatized. When content got digitized, it got centralized in the hands of a few big tech companies. And the problem here, though, is that these big tech companies aren&#8217;t just acting on their own. They&#8217;re acting, you know, at the behest of the government in Washington. And, you know, whether it&#8217;s the Biden administration or various senators on the Judiciary Committee, they have suggested to these companies that their monopolies might be broken up if they don&#8217;t take down more content. And so big tech has gotten the message. They want their monopolies to continue undisturbed, they want to keep minting money. And so they are responding by practicing this censorship.
CARLSON: I just got to finally ask you a personal question. So you&#8217;ve been in this business, at the top of this business, you know, all your life effectively, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen everything in the tech world. Were you shocked to learn that Apple was preventing nonviolent protesters in China from communicating with each other?
SACKS: It is pretty shocking because the way that it was done, Tucker, was they had an update, it was like 16.1.1 or something like that. And they didn&#8217;t say, normally what they do is when they do an update, they put in the release notes what they&#8217;re changing. And they said in the release notes they were changing, you know, doing bug fixes, and so on. They didn&#8217;t mention that they were limiting the use of this AirDrop feature. Normally, Apple is very proud of their releases, and they&#8217;re eager to tell consumers what it is that they&#8217;re doing. But in this case, for some reason, they didn&#8217;t mention it, and you have to wonder why.
CARLSON: It&#8217;s so dark. It&#8217;s unbelievable. And I know that you come on the show and speak your mind at some cost to yourself, given the world that you live in. So I&#8217;m appreciative that you&#8217;re willing to.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-hammers-apple-for-helping-communist-china-squash-protesters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeSantis Hammers Apple For Helping Communist China Squash Protesters</a>

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The United States Soccer Federation (USSF) briefly altered the flag of Iran in social media posts on multiple platforms ahead of the U.S. men&#8217;s team&#8217;s critical match with the Islamic Republic at the World Cup on Tuesday.
The move comes amidst a controversial World Cup in Qatar, the first time soccer’s biggest tournament has been hosted in the Middle East. The American team temporarily changed its banner on social media, showing the teams&#8217; standings and including the Iranian flag with just the green, white, and red stripes, leaving out the Islamic Republic emblem typically at the center. 
“We wanted to show our support for the women in Iran with our graphic for 24 hours,” USSF said in a statement Sunday, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/world-cup-iran-flag-2bdce7a1ba387050f59f6b8fa32927e8?utm_source=homepage&amp;utm_medium=TopNews&amp;utm_campaign=position_04" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press, adding that the women and protesters there were “fighting for basic human rights.” 
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US Soccer will restore the Islamic Republic emblem to Iran&#39;s flag after briefly removing it. “We wanted to show our support for the women in Iran with our graphic for 24 hours.” State-affiliated Tasnim reports the Iranian FF will ask FIFA to ban the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USMNT</a> for 10 games. <a href="https://t.co/nAqr2k3gqJ">pic.twitter.com/nAqr2k3gqJ</a>
&mdash; Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) <a href="https://twitter.com/JacobsBen/status/1596869432860880897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The team has since changed its banner on Twitter and replaced the posts to include the Islamic Republic emblem. Posts on both Twitter and Instagram from Friday showed the emblem until Sunday morning when they appeared to be deleted. The official U.S. Soccer <a href="https://www.ussoccer.com/competitions/fifa-world-cup-qatar-2022/matches/iran-vs-united-states-11-29-22">website</a> shows the flag with the emblem. 
Semi-official Tasnim News Agency has reportedly called on FIFA to ban the United States from the tournament for the action, asking for at least a ten-game suspension. They say that a FIFA rule warns against &#8220;any person who offends the dignity or integrity of a country, a person, or a group of people.&#8221;
Protests in Iran have intensified since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the government’s morality police on September 16. Since then, at least 416 people have been killed, including 51 children and 27 women by “security forces,&#8221; <a href="https://iranhr.net/en/articles/5598/">according</a> to Iran Human Rights. 
The emblem that U.S. soccer removed shows four curves around a sword and represents the Islamic saying, “There is no god but God.” Iranian state media describes the emblem as the &#8220;symbol of Allah.&#8221; The flag has been used to make political statements at this year&#8217;s World Cup, with some waving a version with the emblem, appearing to be pro-government, and others waving the Iranian flag with a lion and sun, which is a pre-revolutionary flag, according to the Associated Press. 
“They must be held responsible,” Safiollah Fagahanpour, an Iran Football Federation adviser, was quoted by ISNA news. “Obviously they want to affect Iran’s performance against the U.S. by doing this,” he continued, adding that the “measures taken regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran Flag are against the law [of FIFA].”
This World Cup was <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/the-world-cup-is-officially-underway-in-qatar-heres-why-its-so-controversial">controversial</a> before it even began, with many around the globe criticizing the choice of Qatar as the host nation because of alleged human rights violations. Due to Qatar’s size, it had to build seven stadiums, renovate an eighth, and improve its infrastructure to accommodate an estimated one million fans. 
These improvements came with a high price tag. Qatar spent an <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-what-qatar-built-for-the-world-cup/?leadSource=uverify%20wall">estimated</a> $300 billion, making it the most expensive World Cup in history. The construction of the stadiums was due in part to migrant workers from nearby countries, many of whom criticized the host nation for working conditions and alleged human rights violations. 
The United States men&#8217;s team plays Iran on Tuesday in a high-stakes match. Both nations are in Group B, where the current standings are: England with four points, Iran with three points, the U.S. with two points, and Wales with one point. To advance to the knockout stage, the United States must beat Iran, which would give them three more points.

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American soccer fans trolled the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/world-cup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Cup</a> during the U.S. Men&#8217;s National Team&#8217;s match against England.
Toward the end of the first half of the Group B matchup between the U.S. and England, fans in the stands erupted in chants of &#8220;it&#8217;s called soccer!&#8221; Videos from social media showed fans participating in the chant. American <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/soccer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">soccer</a> fans used the chant to troll England on Twitter after the two countries played to a draw.
FOX Soccer shared a clip of the chant during the game.
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🗣 IT&#8217;S CALLED SOCCER
Fans across the stadium break out in the chant <a href="https://t.co/f51IFaccUR" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/f51IFaccUR</a>
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) <a href="https://twitter.com/FOXSoccer/status/1596227729363537920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
Fans were also chanting the refrain outside of the stadium.
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🗣 IT&#8217;S CALLED SOCCER<a href="https://twitter.com/USMNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USMNT</a> fans get the chant going ahead of their matchup with England <a href="https://t.co/RUUAICbgyx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/RUUAICbgyx</a>
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) <a href="https://twitter.com/FOXSoccer/status/1596192437940035584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
Even before the U.S. matched up with England, U.S. fans were trolling other countries. Fox Soccer shared a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foxsoccer/video/7168473593729338670?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;item_id=7168473593729338670&amp;lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> of former NFL star Chad &#8220;Ochocinco&#8221; Johnson leading the chant at a watch party on Monday.
Snack giant FritoLay even stepped into the debate, producing a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnO_vmxTdyY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commercial</a> about the &#8220;football&#8221; vs. &#8220;soccer&#8221; debate, directed by Michael Bay and starring NFL legend Peyton Manning, English soccer legend David Beckham, Mexican soccer player Javier &#8220;Chicharito&#8221; Hernández, and American soccer legends Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Brandy Chastain, and Tim Howard.
Twitter users jumped on the bandwagon after the matchup ended in a draw.
&#8220;[I]t&#8217;s called soccer till y&#8217;all can beat us at the world cup,&#8221; entrepreneur and former The Athletic Soccer managing editor <a href="https://twitter.com/quraishi/status/1596246720962232321?s=20&amp;t=YinTkqrJKvnJo0YCBPV0PQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Quraishi</a> wrote on Twitter.
&#8220;[I]t&#8217;s still called soccer,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/DKSportsbook/status/1596245575204474880?s=20&amp;t=BvGpQ-roYG9LKe6rDI5thA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DraftKings</a> sports book tweeted.
&#8220;It’s called soccer!!! 🤣🤣🤣&#8221; legendary former MLB pitcher <a href="https://twitter.com/CC_Sabathia/status/1596246240219770880?s=20&amp;t=WUHVIGqxVEGe9N0U_SLNwg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">C.C. Sabathia</a> laughed.
&#8220;It’s called soccer now idc🤷🏿‍♂️🇺🇸,&#8221; wrote American soccer player <a href="https://twitter.com/DarylDike/status/1596254414322700288?s=20&amp;t=xCFdGnnvK92nEjIizBhXnw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daryl Dike</a>, who plays professionally for West Bromwich Albion of the English Football League
&#8220;IT’S CALLED SOCCER!!! 🗣🇺🇸&#8221; the <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilaUnion/status/1596215778109689856?s=20&amp;t=8MZmH3FDvkXeIfSQ4bCxCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philadelphia Union</a> tweeted.
Contrary to popular belief, the word &#8220;soccer&#8221; being used to describe the game otherwise known as football actually comes from England. According to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Encyclopedia Britannica</a>, students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s differentiated between association football and rugby football by calling association football &#8220;assoccer,&#8221; which was later shortened to &#8220;soccer.&#8221; But the nickname didn&#8217;t stick, and by the 20th century, rugby went from being called &#8220;rugger&#8221; to &#8220;rugby,&#8221; while association football became known as simply football.
When gridiron football emerged in the United States in the late 19th century, it quickly became known simply as football, and soccer was used to differentiate between the two sports. The organizing body of American association football became the United States Soccer Football Association in 1945, and later dropped &#8220;football&#8221; altogether.
Outside the U.S., association football is called &#8220;soccer&#8221; in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Canada, South Africa, and Ireland.
The U.S. and England dueled to a draw in their group stage matchup Friday. The game was defined by defense, as neither team was able to score a goal in a game that went into extra time, though Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie both took shots that hit the post outside the goal. The end result leaves the U.S. in third place in Group B, but the team could still find their way to a berth in the top 16 if they defeat Iran in the final game of the group stage on Tuesday.
England remains in first place in Group B, and can advance in the tournament by defeating Wales in the final game; they can still make the top 16 if they lose by less than 4 as well.

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The U.S. Military responded to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/north-korea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">North Korea&#8217;s</a> latest ballistic missile launches this week by conducting separate military drills using supersonic bombers with both South Korea and Japan.
The air drills came after North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kim-icbm-test-proves-capacity-us-threats-93585620" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conducted</a> an ICBM launch this week that South Korea said had the capability to hit anywhere in the U.S.
&#8220;We are aware of the DPRK&#8217;s ballistic missile launch and are consulting closely with the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan, as well as other regional allies and partners,&#8221; the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement following the launch. &#8220;The United States condemns these actions and calls on the DPRK to refrain from any further unlawful and destabilizing acts. While we have assessed that this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel, or territory, or to our allies, we will continue to monitor the situation. The U.S. commitments to the defense of the ROK and Japan remain ironclad.&#8221;
The U.S. Air Force responded with a joint air training in the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone using B-1B strategic bombers and F-16s alongside South Korean F-35s, which were purchased from the United States.
&#8220;This training demonstrated once again the ROK-US combined defense capability and posture based on the alliance&#8217;s overwhelming power, and the U.S. ironclad commitment to providing extended deterrence in the defense of the Korean Peninsula,&#8221; U.S. Forces Korea said in a statement. &#8220;In addition, this training improved the combined operations capability by mastering procedures to promptly deploy the U.S. extended deterrence asset on the Korean Peninsula and respond.&#8221;
The statement said that South Korea was continuing to develop their military capabilities to respond to hostilities from North Korea should a situation unfold.
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On Nov 19, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JASDF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JASDF</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/F2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#F2</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USAF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USAF</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/B1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#B1</a> conducted tactical exercises in the airspace, northwest of Kyushu, to mutually reaffirm the readiness under the ironclad <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JapanUSAlliance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JapanUSAlliance</a>. JASDF and USAF routinely work together to maintain high levels of operational readiness. <a href="https://t.co/DqVmGo6XAb">pic.twitter.com/DqVmGo6XAb</a>
&mdash; Japan Air Self-Defense Force (@JASDF_PAO_ENG) <a href="https://twitter.com/JASDF_PAO_ENG/status/1593886057153515525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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We. Fly. Together. | 같이납시다 🇰🇷 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ROKUSAlliance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ROKUSAlliance</a> 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/Fa1XryMMBE">https://t.co/Fa1XryMMBE</a>
&mdash; U.S. Forces Korea (@USForcesKorea) <a href="https://twitter.com/USForcesKorea/status/1593888393070452736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The B-1B <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-flies-supersonic-bombers-response-north-koreas-new-icbm-launch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> &#8220;irks&#8221; Kim because of its ability to effectively deliver any weapon in the U.S. arsenal and carry a large payload.
&#8220;Carrying the largest conventional payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the Air Force inventory, the multi-mission B-1 can rapidly deliver massive quantities of precision and non-precision weapons against any adversary, anywhere in the world, at any time,&#8221; the U.S. Strategic Command said in a statement.
&#8220;The B-1&#8217;s can carry Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles, 2,000-pound class Joint Direct Attack Munitions and the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, giving it an advanced stand-off, counter-ship capability,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;It also has an advanced self-protection suite and is able to transit at supersonic speeds to enhance offensive and defensive capabilities reassuring allies and aggressively deterring adversaries in the region.&#8221;
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U.S. Military Deploys Powerful Show Of Force After Latest North Korean Provocation

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On Saturday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> displayed his so-called decency and desire for unity by calling a group of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/socialism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-socialist</a> protesters outside his rally &#8220;idiots.&#8221;
The president, rallying in Joliet, Illinois, was greeted by dozens of protesters holding signs, including ones that said: &#8220;Socialism sucks.&#8221;
&#8220;I love those signs when I came in — socialism. Give me a break, what idiots,” the president barked at attendees before defending Social Security.
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Biden: &quot;I love those signs when I came in. &#39;Socialism.&#39; Give me a break. What idiots.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/SfUvmmdnqx">pic.twitter.com/SfUvmmdnqx</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1588995104865677313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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According to The Hill, other demonstrators also held pro-life signs, as well as more extreme ones that <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3721308-biden-on-people-calling-him-a-socialist-give-me-a-break-what-idiots/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Where&#8217;s Nancy?&#8221; but Biden did not address those messages in his remarks.
During his speech, Biden also stated, &#8220;No one ever doubts I mean what I say, sometimes, of course, I say all that I mean.&#8221;
It is always hard to judge ourselves accurately, but that is a pretty out-of-touch statement for even an &#8220;allegedly&#8221; senile old man to make.
People always doubt what Biden has to say.
For example, everybody knew the president was full of it on Wednesday night when he claimed, &#8220;We need to start looking out for each other again, seeing ourselves as &#8216;We the People,&#8217; not as entrenched enemies.&#8221;
Just three days later, Biden proved those doubters correct by calling fellow Americans he claims to represent &#8220;idiots.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s November speech echoed remarks given by the president in September.
During that speech, Biden encouraged Americans to make a very difficult choice.
&#8220;And now America must choose: to move forward or to move backward?&#8221; he <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/01/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;To build the future or obsess about the past?  To be a nation of hope and unity and optimism, or a nation of fear, division, and of darkness?&#8221;
He claimed that &#8220;MAGA Republicans have made their choice,&#8221; and opted for &#8220;anger&#8221; and &#8220;chaos&#8221; while living &#8220;not in the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies.&#8221;
&#8220;But together — together, we can choose a different path,&#8221; the president offered. &#8220;We can choose a better path.  Forward, to the future. A future of possibility. A future to build and dream and hope.&#8221;
Shortly after that plea, the administration effectively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/political-prosecution-pro-life-activist-mark-houck-fights-back-pleads-not-guilty-to-federal-charges-after-controversial-arrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sicced</a> the full weight of the Department of Justice against a father of seven, pro-life Catholic, and arrested the man at his house for an incident that had been thrown out of court.
Now, Biden is bringing political opponents together by calling them &#8220;idiots.&#8221;
He has also updated his warning from &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; to &#8220;Mega MAGA Republicans&#8221; while claiming that if Republicans win on Tueday, democracy is as good as dead in the water.
Readers are forgiven, if contrary to his remarks on Saturday, they doubt Biden always means what he says.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s conversation with Eric Duhaime on political trends in young people. You can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/quebec-and-the-conservative-youth-revolution-eric-duhaime">listen to</a> or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/quebec-and-the-conservative-youth-revolution-eric-duhaime">watch</a> the full podcast on DailyWire+.
Podcast time: 39:55
There’s a principle that governs conservative thinking that’s actually derived from the Catholic Church, and then even more deeply, derived from an older biblical tradition based on the Old Testament Exodus story, that proper governance — proper distribution of responsibility — should follow the principle of subsidiarity. Edmund Burke developed this as well. It’s a very good notion, and I think it’s correct. It’s one of the things that attracts me in some fundamental sense to conservative thinking.
Imagine a state where there’s a single executive who has all the power and the people have none. You would think of that as a tyranny, and that’s obviously not desirable. And then you might think, ‘What’s the alternative to a tyranny?’ You might say, ‘Well, direct democracy where the voice of the people rules supreme and the leader must follow the whims of the crowd.’ But the problem with that is that it’s not that easy to figure out what the crowd thinks, and the entire system can fall prey to suddenly arising, poorly organized, deviant impulses.
So what the founders of the American state did, and many other states as well, is set up a series of intermediary structures of power. You can sort of list them up hierarchically. There would be the domain of responsibility of the individual. There would be the domain of the responsibility of the married couple, of the family, of the local community, then the town, then the state or province, and then the country. Each of those levels would be requested to take as much responsibility for what they could at the local level. The relationship between all those levels should be governed by the principle that if it can be decided at a lower level — then it should be. 
The reason that that’s useful is twofold. One is that it’s a really good way of delegating responsibility. It’s very efficient if everyone plays their role. The second is — this is another thing the conservatives really have on their side — if the state does everything for you, let’s say, well, in a sense you’re secure, although you’re not because you’re beholden to the benevolence of the state. That can be taken away arbitrarily. But the downside is — this is one of the downsides of universal basic income proposals — it’s like, what the hell is there left for you to do if the state does everything for you? Well, you’re secure. But what’s your life, then? You have no purpose. If the purpose of life — and this is another thing that the more libertarian conservatives could be offering — imagine that the purpose of your life isn’t security and satiation because you’re not just an overgrown infant. Imagine instead that the purpose of your life is something like responsible, productive, generous adventure.
Then the call would be: Make space for people to manifest that in the particularities of their own life. And then everyone has a real part to play, and no one in some real sense is subordinate to anyone else. There would be a hierarchical structure, and some people like you would be leading at the more abstract levels. But your power would be — your authority and your responsibility — would be properly delimited and everything else everybody else was doing all the way down the hierarchy right to the level of running their individual enterprise would in some sense be just as meaningful and just as crucial. That strikes me as an extraordinarily useful vision of governance, especially in the aftermath of the COVID fiasco.
To hear the rest of the discussion, continue by listening or watching this episode on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/browse">DailyWire+</a>.
<a href="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson</a> is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules For Life, and Beyond Order. You can now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast">listen</a> to or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson">watch</a> his popular lectures on DailyWire+.

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As Russian President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vladimir-putin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vladimir Putin</a> signed his annexation laws Wednesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> ambassador to the U.S. made direct accusations against America for its role in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia-Ukraine war</a>.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden</a> administration <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/04/readout-of-president-bidens-call-with-president-zelenskyy-of-ukraine-10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">informed</a> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the phone Tuesday of $625 million more heading to Ukraine in an arms package that will send four advanced rocket systems to the country. On Wednesday, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov responded, saying that the latest military aid, on top of America&#8217;s billions of dollars committed to Ukraine, proves “Washington&#8217;s status as a participant in the conflict.” He also called the aid an “immediate threat,” CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-news-putin-annexation-laws-russia-us-military-aid-immediate-threat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;The supply of military products by the U.S. and its allies not only entails protracted bloodshed and new casualties, but also increases the danger of a direct military clash between Russia and Western countries,&#8221; Antonov wrote on the Telegram messaging app. &#8220;We call on Washington to stop its provocative actions that could lead to the most serious consequences.&#8221;
The U.S. government has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-simply-have-to-step-back-the-realist-approach-to-war-in-ukraine-and-americas-european-allies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committed</a> upwards of $40 billion to Ukraine since the end of January, more than every other country in the world combined, according to <a href="https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">figures</a> from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The American government’s military aid to Ukraine has, no doubt, helped the country fend off its Russian invaders. Putin’s superior army invaded Ukraine in late February, and seven months later, the war drags on with winter approaching and no end in sight.
The Russians have been forced to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russians-on-the-run-putins-forces-flee-another-strategic-city-day-after-annexation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retreat</a> on multiple occasions in the past month as a Ukrainian counteroffensive successfully takes back key positions on the war’s frontline. Russian troops withdrew Saturday from Lyman in the Donetsk Oblast just one day after Putin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vladimir-putin-set-to-claim-wide-swaths-of-ukraine-after-sham-referenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annexed</a> large swaths of Ukraine following what many are calling sham referenda across four eastern and southern Ukrainian regions.
Another Russian official, Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, called for “more drastic measures” to be taken when troops fled Lyman, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-state-media-4cae428dd9d30d994e109ffde6f2ece1">the Associated Press.</a>

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The U.S. and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/south-korea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South Korea</a> fired several missiles late on Tuesday in responses to North Korea&#8217;s provocation earlier this week in firing a ballistic missile over Japan.
The Japanese government broadcast a warning across the country early Tuesday morning local time after North Korea fired the missile in the direction of the northern part of the country, an apparent escalation. The missile eventually flew overhead and continued into the Pacific Ocean. It was the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-fires-missile-towards-east-skorea-military-2022-10-03/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fifth</a> missile launch in the past 10 days and the 23rd launch since the start of the year.
The U.S. and South Korea fired four surface-to-surface missiles in response to North Korea&#8217;s latest nuclear provocation, according to a <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-us-launch-4-surface-to-surface-missiles-in-response-to-north-korea-missile-test-yonhap">report</a> from Yonhap News Agency.
The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo promoted Japan&#8217;s warning on Monday following the missile launch, saying that there was a &#8220;possibility it&#8217;s heading toward Japan.&#8221;
Videos online showed air raid sirens blasting throughout the country urging people to take cover pending the incoming strike.
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“You can’t ever get used to that sound,” said 72-year-old resident Kazuyuki Tsuchiya. “It makes me feel so scared.”
The ballistic missile fired by North Korea traveled nearly 3,000 miles, the longest distance the isolated nation has ever fired a projectile.
Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, said, “The Kim regime is developing weapons such as tactical nuclear warheads and submarine-launched ballistic missiles as part of a long-term strategy to outrun South Korea in an arms race and drive wedges among U.S. allies.”
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/world/asia/japan-north-korea-missile.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that officials believe that based on the height the missile reached, 602 miles, the missile was a long-range ballistic missile, capable of hitting Guam. The last time that North Korea fired a missile over Japan was back in September 2017.
When former President Donald Trump (R) was in the White House, he threatened North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to knock off making threats against the United States.
“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Trump <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/trump-warns-north-korea-threats-will-be-met-with-fire-and-fury.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening &#8230; and as I said they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-touts-strong-and-enduring-ties-with-republic-of-north-korea-in-latest-gaffe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris Touts ‘Strong And Enduring’ Ties With ‘Republic Of North Korea’ In Latest Gaffe </a>

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Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> mistakenly said the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States</a> has a “strong and enduring” alliance with the “Republic of North Korea” on Thursday.
The gaffe happened as Harris delivered prepared remarks from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/south-korea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South Korea</a>, one of her stops during a diplomatic trip around Asia this week. Her visit to South Korea was preceded by multiple North Korean rocket tests and at least one more after her departure, according to the South Korean military.
“The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea. And it is an alliance that is strong and enduring,” Harris said.
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Harris’s visit to South Korea comes amid concerns over North Korea’s escalating rocket tests and suspicions that the regime may soon test a nuclear weapon. While touring South Korea, the vice president said North Korea’s recent rocket tests are intended to “destabilize the region” and repeated the United States’ call for the “complete denuclearization” of North Korea, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/japan-asia-tokyo-kamala-harris-seoul-388f6a766cf95995096d261444c612c6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>.
Harris also reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to its Asian allies.
“I cannot state enough that commitment of the United States to the defense of the Republic of Korea is ironclad,” she said. “In the South, we see a thriving democracy. In the North, we see a brutal dictatorship.”
During her visit, Harris met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. Harris told Yoon that the U.S. was prepared to defend South Korea militarily in the case of war, Yoon’s office said.
North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan on Thursday after Harris departed South Korea by helicopter. The rocket test was the third this week, following at least two shot off on Wednesday and one on Sunday, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/29/north-korea-fires-missile-after-harris-leaves-south-korea.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC</a>.
North Korea has been pushing the United States to recognize it as a nuclear power, causing some concern among Western officials that the dictatorial regime run by Kim Jong Un may test its first nuclear device since 2017. According to South Korean intelligence, the test is likely to come sometime between the Chinese Communist Party convention the week of October 16 and the United States’ midterm elections on November 8.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> troops have retreated amidst a successful Ukrainian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/good-decision-for-them-to-run-russian-forces-retreating-as-ukraines-counteroffensive-sees-success" target="_blank" rel="noopener">counteroffensive</a> in recent weeks, but the brutal war drags on toward winter with no end in sight.
As they defend their homeland, the Ukrainians rely on billions of dollars in U.S. assistance as European powers balance supporting President Volodymyr Zelensky while also facing an energy crisis made worse by their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/europeans-resort-to-burning-wood-amid-desperate-search-for-energy-now-greta-thunberg-wants-to-limit-that-too" target="_blank" rel="noopener">green energy policies</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eu-plans-to-reduce-dependence-on-russian-fossil-fuels-well-before-2030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dependence</a> on Russian oil. Meanwhile, America’s greatest international adversary in Beijing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-launching-targeted-military-operations-encircling-taiwan-after-pelosi-lands-on-island" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eyes Taiwan</a> in what could become another strategic nightmare for a Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-report-reveals-biden-failures-that-led-to-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rattled</a> by foreign policy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/none-of-the-three-occurred-biden-denies-making-foreign-policy-gaffes-that-white-house-walked-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blunders</a>.
With experts in the U.S. debating the best way to approach the current list of foreign policy challenges, the public is inundated with ideological perspectives that range from nationalistic isolationism to global interventionism. But, according to American Institute of Economic Research (AIER) President Dr. William Ruger, there’s a more balanced way to address America’s foreign policy issues.
He calls it a realist approach.
“I’m a realist, so I’m not opposed to alliances when they’re appropriate means to reaching our national security goals,” Ruger said in an interview with The Daily Wire. “But we have to recognize that, unlike President Biden who talked about our alliances as ‘sacred,’ they are [a] means, and there are some pathologies to alliances, one of them being that you can get chain ganged into conflicts.”
Ruger, an Afghanistan veteran who was nominated by former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, explained that the U.S. has often been “chain ganged” into foreign conflicts by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European</a> powers, such as when America got involved in Libya under former President Barack Obama. As the leader of the free world, the U.S. often bends to the wishes of its alliances and ends up fronting the bill that comes along with those demands.
“Often times, our European allies are just not designed to, in terms of their fore-structure and their military budget, to have the kind of approach that we’ve taken over the last 20-30 years, and I worry that there’s disjuncture between American interests and what our allies are willing to do, particularly because they won’t have to pay the full cost,” said Ruger.
The U.S. has already committed upwards of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-advances-massive-40-billion-ukraine-spending-package-11-republicans-oppose" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$40 billion</a> to Ukraine since the end of January, more than every country in the world combined, <a href="https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to figures from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The American government’s military aid to Ukraine has, no doubt, helped the country fend off its Russian invaders. After nearly seven months of fighting, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vladimir-putin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vladimir Putin</a>’s forces have caused death and destruction, but remain far from accomplishing a full-scale takeover of the country.
A Ukrainian counteroffensive even successfully <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/good-decision-for-them-to-run-russian-forces-retreating-as-ukraines-counteroffensive-sees-success" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> Russian forces from two areas in eastern Ukraine. The country of 44 million people has fought valiantly against Russia’s army, demonstrating to the world that Putin’s growl exaggerates his bite. Yet, the optimistic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/volodymyr-zelensky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zelensky</a> says his country still needs an undefined amount of time before the end of the war. “We can return the Ukrainian flag to our entire territory. We can do it with the force of arms,” the Ukrainian president <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-ap-00058201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the United Nations Wednesday. “But we need time.”
But how much longer do American taxpayers fund Ukraine’s defense? Is there a financial threshold for U.S. aid to Ukraine, or should the Biden administration do whatever it takes to keep Zelensky’s army going?
Ruger explained that while he fully supports the Ukrainians’ fight for independence, he’s “also a realist” and worries about the rhetoric used by American leaders when discussing their all-out commitment to supporting Ukraine in the war.
“I think that one of the challenges of providing this support is it may, especially if you hear people talk about ‘We’ll do anything it takes,’ that type of language could prevent the kind of diplomatic end to the conflict that is how most wars end,” Ruger added.
The former vice president for research and policy at the Charles Koch Institute said that the lessons learned from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/world-war-ii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World War II</a> are still engrained in Americans’ minds as the perfect example of how to address aggression, but those picture-book history lessons aren’t perfect representations of the factors surrounding a war. Ruger emphasized that wars don’t simply end in the fashionable battleship peace treaties and victory parades that people usually think about.
“That is not the way the world generally works,” he added.
Instead, for bloodshed to cease, countries often must be willing to compromise. American leaders looking at Ukraine from the outside need to focus on what is most important to the interests of the U.S.
“Someone has to say it, but Ukraine just isn’t that strategically important to the United States. It just isn’t,” Ruger said.
Ruger explained that it’s possible to hold this realist view while also sympathizing with Ukraine, but sympathy for Ukraine “doesn’t mean the United States’ national interests are on the line,” he said. “We need to calibrate our efforts relative to our interests, not the interests of Ukraine.”
Instead of holding a hard and fast stance on either staying out of every conflict or policing the world, Ruger argues for taking each issue into consideration and making a decision based on what’s best for America. Right now, that decision means America needs to hand Europe more of the responsibility, according to Ruger.
“We should be promoting Europe doing more in burden sharing and burden shifting, and that means that we simply have to step back,” he said.
A previous version of this article said Dr. Ruger used Syria as an example of &#8220;chain-ganging&#8221;; he used Libya as an example.

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A new law passed by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/north-korea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">North Korean</a> dictator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kim-jong-un" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kim Jong Un</a>’s puppet parliament will allow for the leader to fire a preemptive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nuclear-weapons" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nuclear</a> attack if the country believes such an action would protect it from a threat.
North Korea’s new law also ensures that the country will “automatically and immediately” retaliate with nuclear weapons if Kim is killed in an attack, Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/09/09/north-korea-will-automatically-launch-nukes-if-kim-killed-00055863" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Kim mentioned strained relations with the U.S. as one of the reasons for the importance of the law that he claims is “irreversible.”
&#8220;As long as nuclear weapons exist on Earth, and imperialism and the anti-North Korean maneuvers of the U.S. and its followers remain, our road to strengthening our nuclear force will never end,&#8221; Kim said, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/asia/north-korea-kim-nuclear-weapons-state-law-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to CNN.
Kim also reaffirmed his commitment to maintaining his country’s nuclear capabilities, saying North Korea will “never give up nuclear weapons and there is absolutely no denuclearization, and no negotiation and no bargaining chip to trade in the process.”
Previously, Kim and his father Kim Jong-Il indicated they would only ever use nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack on North Korea. The new law gives Kim reasons to launch an attack for anything from retaliation for a non-nuclear strike on the country or a preemptive attack to stop an event “judged to be on the horizon.”
Pyongyang’s new standard for a nuclear strike concerns some experts who question the regime’s ability to gather sufficient intelligence. “This raises serious questions about the North’s ability to get accurate intelligence and what the threshold of evidence will be to make those judgment calls,” Jenny Town, a senior fellow and director of the 38 North program at the Stimson Center, told Politico.
Earlier this year, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol <a href="https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220203000945" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> his country’s position to launch a preemptive strike against his neighbor to the north was vital to maintaining peace. Some view North Korea’s latest action as a response to Yoon’s comment.

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New North Korea Law Allows For Preemptive Nuclear Strikes, Country Will ‘Automatically And Immediately’ Fire Nuke If Kim Dies In Attack

New North Korea Law Allows For Preemptive Nuclear Strikes

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