What DPRK is doing when it builds nukes and demonstrates its rocketry capabilities is a deterrence. What the US does when it nukes Japanese citizens, takes over the Japanese imperial colony of Korea, drops more bombs on the DPRK than almost any country in the history of war, and then flies a nuclear-capable plane to that colony from the other side of the world is not a deterrent - it’s force projection, a threat, and a reminder that it is still violently in occupation of Korea.
For the USSR, it was a response to the missiles in Turkey. But Cuba wanted those missiles there also as a deterrence to not have a repeat of the bay of pigs invasion.
Deterrence is a thing, do you think it doesn’t work?
Threatening people always works out well in the end. /s
What DPRK is doing when it builds nukes and demonstrates its rocketry capabilities is a deterrence. What the US does when it nukes Japanese citizens, takes over the Japanese imperial colony of Korea, drops more bombs on the DPRK than almost any country in the history of war, and then flies a nuclear-capable plane to that colony from the other side of the world is not a deterrent - it’s force projection, a threat, and a reminder that it is still violently in occupation of Korea.
Thank you for being more eloquent than me.
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Moving Soviet missiles to Cuba was a deterrence and that almost triggered a nuclear war.
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For the USSR, it was a response to the missiles in Turkey. But Cuba wanted those missiles there also as a deterrence to not have a repeat of the bay of pigs invasion.
In that case it was both.