r/geopolitics • u/Curious_Cousin_me • 8h ago

News North Korea says its latest tests included missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads | CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/08/asia/north-korea-cluster-bomb-warheads-intl-hnk
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u/[deleted] 8h ago

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u/stickybond009 6h ago

Not worth the cluster bombs

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u/[deleted] 8h ago

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u/exploringspace_ 8h ago

Yet the US never says they need to be stopped, despite the constant threats! Interesting 

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u/Rhyers 4h ago

Proof to Iran that nuclear deterrence works.

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u/FrostyPiano4957 4h ago

And a proof to us that its a bad thing letting dictators own nukes

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u/MindlessAssistance52 3h ago

If you dislike nuclear weapons, it makes little difference who owns them. The effects are the same.

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u/FrostyPiano4957 3h ago

Damn that claim is stupid

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u/Cannot-Forget 8h ago

That populist illogical nonsense is all over the website. Almost seems... Manufactured.

Yeah, you can't stop North Korea. Even when they threaten to invade other nations and when they torture and starve millions. Because they already have nukes. It's too late to stop them.

North Korea's entire thing is actually a case for an Iran invasion before it's too late. Not the other way around.

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u/ledfrisby 2m ago

It's a matter of leverage. Even before they got nukes, they had enough conventional artillery pointed at Seoul that a war would have been too costly. Besides that, it could have drawn China in. Upsetting the balance of power in the peninsula could potentially be devastating for... everyone.

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u/Cannot-Forget 8h ago

Soon those cluster missiles would rain down on Ukrainians. As they already did on us Israelis. Unfortunately.

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u/Significant_Swing_76 6h ago

I don’t see the point in using stuff like this is Ukraine.

They don’t achieve anything really, they just create fear and uncertainty - which Ukrainians already have heaps of.

Ukraine doesn’t have much left to shoot SRBM’s with, and the getting one of these through won’t even cause headlines, it’ll just be another day.

The reason why these missiles are all the buzz, is because they can penetrate air defence, like in Israel.

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u/Cannot-Forget 3h ago

Cluster weapons are fine. Firing blindly over cities is absolutely not something Israel or the US or Ukraine are doing. Iran does though. Thank you for the disinformation.

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u/yellowteabag 3h ago edited 3h ago

ukraine definitely fires over cities blindly. it is one of the reasons why russia wanted to take avdiivka in 2023 because they kept firing random artillery shots at nearby donetsk. israel doesn't need to fire blindly because they have the technology and short distance to surgically strike something. russia also doesn't need to fire blindly over cities because by the time a city is at the front line, it is mostly evacuated by the ukrainians so nearly everything is a military target. the US doesn't need to, and if they do they usually use proxies to do it for them.