Kim Jong-un appears to lower his guardrails for nuclear strike

Bloomberg

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to have lowered his threshold for a nuclear strike, raising the risks for a miscalculation as he rolls out new weapons whose uses range from nearby tactical strikes to threatening the US homeland from afar.
Kim signalled a looser policy towards his possible use of atomic weapons at a military parade in Pyongyang aired on state television. While North Korea’s nuclear force was primarily meant to “deter wars,” it had a “second mission,” and “cannot be bound to only one mission, if there’s an outbreak of an unwanted situation on this land,” he told tens of thousands of adoring citizens.
The North Korean leader has backed his words with tests of weapons designed to evade American missile defenses in Asia and deliver warheads to the US mainland.
Satellite imagery indicates North Korea is preparing a key site for the country’s first nuclear test since 2017, after pledging to develop new miniaturised warheads for tactical weapons and more powerful bombs that would be carried by long-range rockets.