Even after January 2002, the United States put North Korea, Iraq, Libya, and Iran on the list of "rogue states."
This means that the United States will not only impose sanctions on them, but even go to war.
Soon after, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was arrested and imprisoned, and then Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi was also killed on the way to flee.
These American masterpieces have frightened many countries, but North Korea is uncharacteristically trying to wrestle with the United States.
Is North Korea's behavior a bluff or something else?
In fact, this is mainly because North Korea has four hard-core "weapons", which gives them strong confidence.
The spiritual atomic bomb of North Korea's confidence
Many Chinese who have been to North Korea have such a delusion.
The current situation in the DPRK is the same as in the sixties and seventies of the last century on the mainland, and the people not only have serious expressions, but also wear the badges of leaders on their bodies without exception.
This kind of badge can not be bought with money, and only the unit can distribute it uniformly. Whether it is work or rest, they will take care of this medallion carefully.
There was once a North Korean mine that had a mining accident due to a mudslide. When the rescuers tried to open the mine, the rescued miner did not choose to escape, but first handed out the package of the tightly wrapped leader's portrait, but he himself was stoned to death in the mine by the secondary collapse.
This is something that is completely unthinkable in other countries, but it is happening in North Korea.
People regard this small medallion as a sacred object that is more precious than life, and as long as they are worn, it is as if the leader accompanies them.
We all know that if a person has lofty ideals, then his life will no longer be ordinary, and a nation will have a unified orientation, which will be a force to be reckoned with.
It is precisely with the support of more than 26 million North Koreans that the North Korean government dares to argue with the United States.
Not only did they dare to criticize the United States on television, but they also dared to conduct military exercises in front of the allies of Japan and South Korea, which the United States had nurtured.
On the one hand, their confidence lies in this kind of spiritual atomic bomb with one heart, and if the United States, Japan, and South Korea dare to attack, they will quickly fall into the ocean of people's war.
On the other hand, when the American army marched to Iraq, the Iraqis were eager to eat pot pulp to welcome the king. Before the US military launched an attack, the so-called elite Iraqi Republican Guard was scattered like birds and beasts, and directly left Saddam Hussein aside.
Saddam Hussein and his sons fled like lost dogs, but they were guillotined by the traitors.
That's because, while Iraqis are rich from selling oil, they are far less spiritually loyal than North Korea's.
Second, North Korea does not only have a spiritual atomic bomb, but they also have a physical atomic bomb.
North Korea's strategic nuclear weapons
Although the keys to the nuclear gate are in the hands of the five permanent members of the United Nations, this does not prevent other countries from secretly assigning the keys.
Among them, the DPRK is a very special country, which not only dares to brazenly conduct nuclear tests, but even directly releases the news of the construction of an atomic bomb to the United States.
In those years, the United States was looking for "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, and even did not hesitate to start a war for this purpose, but after looking around, it did not find the slightest clue.
North Korea, on the other hand, is not afraid of war against the United States, and it has not only warned the United States directly, but has even repeatedly conducted "nuclear deterrence" through nuclear and missile tests.
Japan and South Korea are important links in the U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy, and at the same time, these two countries have a deep blood enmity with North Korea.
The division of the Korean Peninsula and the cruelty of the Japanese occupation of Korea made North Korea not want to take revenge for a moment.
North Korean missiles may not be able to reach the continental United States, but they are not yet in a position to cross the strait to reach Japan, or to cross the border to attack Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
Don't look at the sound of the DPRK's poor jingle in the international community, the so-called "barefoot is not afraid to wear shoes", once the two sides start a nuclear war, it is still unclear who will lose and who will win.
Some people say that the DPRK is bluffing and engaging in "nuclear blackmail," but it is by virtue of this almost rogue gambler spirit that the DPRK has resolved crisis after crisis.
With these two atomic bombs alone, North Korea's confidence is far from enough, and in fact, it is not bad to pull out its conventional weapons.
North Korea's conventional weapons
At a time when people are accustomed to watching the US navy, army, and air force constantly flex their muscles in movies and in reality, people will always have a concept, that is, the future war model is an all-round information-based and intelligent experience.
Spy satellites scattered in space and reconnaissance drones scattered all over the battlefield have replaced traditional reconnaissance behind enemy lines and camouflage.
The positioning of the radar is more capable of guiding the missile to carry out area-coverage bombing.
Traditional tanks are no longer important, and even helicopters and fighter jets have become "roast ducks" that are shot down at launch.
From the Russian-Ukrainian war that has occurred in the past two years, we can see that the vast majority of Russia's traditional army, navy and air force are in a passive situation in the face of the Ukrainian army armed with high technology by the United States.
Now that the former big brother, the Soviet Union (Russia), has been pinned to the ground by the United States (Ukraine) and beaten wildly, what will happen to North Korea, which is armed with Soviet-style (Russian) weapons?
Most of North Korea's weapons are still stuck in the sixties and seventies of the last century, the old T-54 and even the T-34 still occupy the mainstream, and even the pitiful few aircraft have not been electronic, and these weapons simply cannot compete with South Korea, which is equipped with a large number of advanced tanks and fighters, let alone the United States, which is armed to the teeth.
If North Korea is even inferior to Iraq in terms of weapons alone, then why does it dare to confront the United States so confidently?
That's because war is a very complex concept, and one or two elements alone cannot determine victory or defeat.
Iraq's topography is very special, with 80% of the country's land being desertified, and even the occasional mountain range is only 1,200 meters. Such terrain is very unfavorable for the concealment of military operations of large regiments, but it is easy for US spy satellites to see clearly.
At that time, Iraq first fought the "Iran-Iraq War" with Iran for eight years, and then brazenly sent troops to invade the sovereign country of Kuwait, and was politically isolated by other countries. As a result, the United States seized the opportunity to unite Western countries and its Arab allies to carry out Operation "Desert Storm" against it from all directions under the banner of peacekeeping.
Iraq, already exhausted by the long war, was bombed in less than a month. Subsequently, the United States passed various sanctions, so that Iraq, which only traded oil, was squeezed to the last drop of blood.
The Korean Peninsula is long and narrow from north to south, mountainous in the north, and plain in the south, and the DPRK and the ROK are bounded by the "38th parallel." Once a war is launched, the DPRK will first attack the ROK, the younger brother of the United States.
is the so-called "can't beat Guan Zhang, can't beat Liu Bei"?
The DPRK will quietly transport the missiles, artillery, and tanks hidden in the caves to the designated locations in advance through the passages covered by dense forests, and as long as the high-level officials give an order, they will be able to send a wave of steel and fire to the entire South Korean territory in an instant, and then without waiting for the South Korean army to react, they will use aircraft and tanks to surprise and guide the mechanized infantry to attack in multiple directions, implement the strategic policy of great depth in South Korea, occupy the entire Korean Peninsula with a thunderous force, and complete the reunification of the nation.
This kind of "blitzkrieg," which was played by the German army in World War II and the Soviet army in the "Cold War," has played a miracle more than once, and in the face of the North Korean army, which is not afraid of death like a tide, it is believed that the advanced weapons of the South Korean army will not play any role at all.
In addition, in the case of North Korea's nuclear deterrence, the U.S. and Japanese militaries must first weigh up if they want to act rashly.
However, if North Korea lacks the last trump card, then its first three strengths will be greatly reduced.
And this trump card gives it the ultimate confidence, what is this?
North Korea has the confidence of the Sino-North Korean alliance
If Iraq was embattled, the opposite is true for North Korea.
It is bordered to the north by Russia and China, two world powers that are traditionally friendly countries of North Korea.
Vladivostok, not far from North Korea, is home to Russia's Pacific Fleet all year round, while China has a strong military to protect North Korea.
During the Korean War, faced with the fact that almost all of Korea was occupied by the US-ROK coalition forces, the Chinese people waved the banner of "resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, defending the homeland and defending the country," and resolutely sent hundreds of thousands of troops to support the DPRK despite their own difficulties in needing to be rebuilt.
The Soviet Union, the predecessor of Russia, also quietly sent as many as 70,000 air force units to the war.
In the contest of blood and fire, the Chinese, North Korean and Soviet armies not only drove the US-ROK coalition forces back to the "38th parallel", but also forged an extraordinary friendship in this battle.
Many people know that the Korean War was only an armistice, but not a complete end, but few people know that China and North Korea also signed the "Sino-DPRK Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance".
The treaty prominently lists the military alliance between China and North Korea, and China will not remain indifferent as long as Korea is invaded.
Today, the paper treaty is still in force and has become North Korea's most valuable talisman.
Back then, China was not afraid of the United States when it was poor and white, and now China's weapons have long been modernized and upgraded.
There is a saying that "it depends on the owner to beat a dog", and children and adults will naturally not be indifferent when they are beaten, and behind North Korea are the 1.4 billion Chinese with aircraft carriers, various types of fighters, intercontinental missiles and advanced drones.
Any US countermeasures against the DPRK must be weighed first.
Although the Chinese love peace, they will not sit idly by and watch their allies be eliminated, let alone allow their buffer zone to deploy armed forces that threaten them.
It is precisely because of these four kinds of confidence that the DPRK has the courage to slap the United States with sufficient strength.