Musings on the DPRK's Nuclear Weapons programme by a KFA UK member and independent military researcher

The chronology of the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program generally, and the Hwasong 15 specifically, is already very well known, and no doubt very familiar to everyone in attendance. So rather than treading old water by reviewing key dates and achievements, I reasoned that this time would be better spent trying to analyse the meaning and significance of the events rather than simply reviewing them. With that in mind I would like to propose a theory: that the success of the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program is the ultimate vindication of the Juche Idea. 

The Juche Idea stresses the importance of self-reliance through political, economic, and military independence, and sure enough, the development of the DPRK has many successes which serve to prove the viability of these principles; a sophisticated automotive industry, the manufacturing of sophisticated consumer goods free from the weaknesses and shortcomings of globalist models of production, clean and safe cities that are the envy of the world, a space program that reliably puts satellites into orbit - when even the European powers struggle to do so without international collaboration. Truely, the successes of the Juche Idea are blatantly apparent for all observers, but all of the aforementioned successes pale in comparison when put beside the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program. 

So successful is the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program, that we can consider the DPRK to be the only true independent nuclear power in human history. The American nuclear program was built from plundered British military secrets. The British nuclear program only got off the ground following a grand multi-national effort that saw the best and brightest of the allied sphere of influence all working together. The South African nuclear program was a gift from pro-aparthied elements in the British Government. The Chinese nuclear program was a gift from the Soviets, and the Soviet nuclear program itself was heavily dependent upon politically enlightened scientists from the west passing along vital documents. 

The DPRK had none of these advantages - and yet still succeeded. Hostile globalist powers such as the US and the UK have actively frustrated the effort at every turn, attempting to sanction the DPRK’s nuclear program into oblivion. Even the supposedly friendly powers of Russia and China have done nothing to aid the Korean effort to produce nuclear weapons. 

For many nations, this isolation would be a disadvantage, if not the end of the effort altogether - but for a nation built around the Juche Idea, it mattered naught. Thanks to the enlightened efforts of its many great leaders the DPRK had the means, the ability, and the competency to produce nuclear weapons without bruising its knees on the international stage - a feat not one other nation has repeated in the entirety of human history. 

For that reason, I close by repeating my initial hypothesis: That the DPRK nuclear weapons program is the ultimate vindication of the Juche Idea. 

Long live the DPRK, and long may its nuclear arsenal keep its people free from the shackles of capitalist imperialism.