Global Ontology Report : Kim is employing a nuclear theory known as Nuclear Utilization Theory: “deters through damage denial or limitation” vice the “punishment strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction Theory.”[1]. Denying US access into N. Korea as a defensive buffer via threatening US territories; and allies in Western Pacific (i.e., Guam, N. Marianas; & S. Korea, Japan) This strategy closes the balance of power gap by forcing strategic negotiations with a less powerful nation-state.
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