North Korea's Military Buildup: Threat or Response?

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He walks through the logic of perceived threats and military buildups, pointing to North Korea as a case study in reactive policy. When a nation believes itself under threat, whether that threat is real or manufactured, it can justify extracting massive resources from its own population to fund weapons development. The question becomes: how much of what we call aggression is actually response? He's not defending North Korea's regime, but asking us to think structurally about cause and effect. If their missile program and nuclear ambitions are framed domestically as defensive, then the threat narrative becomes the engine that sustains the military apparatus. This is the feedback loop of geopolitics, where each side's actions validate the other's fears, and the cycle continues.