How North Korea Got the Nuke

Breaking History

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As Iranian nuclear ambitions force their way back onto America’s agenda, it’s worth looking at the story of North Korea, the original ‘madman’ nation that bullied its way to the nuclear table. ******* CREDITSProducer Poppy DamonExecutive Producer Alex Miller ******* Buy tickets for SAPIR Debate“Is Donald Trump Good for the Jews?” at sapirjournal.org/sapirdebate. Listen to Unpacking Israeli History Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Donald Trump is trying to negotiate away Iran's nukes as the Ayatollahs are perilously close to
0:07.2	harnessing the atom's power on the tip of a missile. I hope he succeeds, but if the president
0:13.3	fails, he wouldn't be the first potus to allow a rogue state to go nuclear. That would be
0:19.6	George W. Bush
0:20.8	and the rogue state in question,
0:23.3	North Korea.
0:24.5	Up next, why the world's worst fiends are so
0:28.3	enamored with the world's most destructive weapons.
0:31.1	I'm not able to fall and back labble.
0:35.4	The part you got this next year's model.
0:39.7	Lee Harvey-Od, Irving, Berlin.
0:43.8	What happened once happens again?
0:47.5	When news is a mystery.
0:51.7	Turn into breaking history.
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