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Vladimir Putin

Inserted 2 months ago

“They have announced the possibility of sending Western military contingents to Ukraine … The consequences for possible interventionists will be much more tragic. They should eventually realise that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory. Everything that the West comes up with creates the real threat of a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, and thus the destruction of civilisation.”

Aje

President of Russia

29 Feb 2024 3 4

Harry Harris

Inserted 1 year ago

“The U.S. intelligence community assesses that KJU [Kim Jong-un] views nuclear weapons as the ultimate deterrent against foreign intervention. KJU declared last year that he would be willing to employ nukes more broadly in wartime, and last September, he stated unequivocally that he would never give up his nukes and the North Korea's status as a nuclear weapons state is irreversible. We must not relax sanctions or reduce joint military exercises just to get North Korea to come to the negotiating table. This is a fool's error. While we hope for diplomacy with North Korea to be successful, we must recognize that hope alone is not a course of action. The quest for dialogue with the North must never be made at the expense of the ability to respond to threats from the North.”

Koreatimes

Former United States Ambassador to South Korea

03 Jan 2023 2 4

Kim Eun-hye

Inserted 1 year ago

“When the Reuters reporter asked him point blank if joint nuclear exercises were being discussed, President Biden obviously had to say, 'No'. outh Korea and the United States are in talks over information-sharing, joint planning and the joint implementation plans that follow, in relation to the operation of US nuclear assets, to respond to North Korea's nuclear weapons.”

Aljazeera

South Korean President Yoon’s senior secretary for press affairs

03 Jan 2023 5 1

Cheong Seong-chang

Inserted 1 year ago

“Compared with Kim's previous New Year's remarks, which highlighted the country's economic growth, he emphasized strengthening the military and nuclear weapons this time. A nuclear test is expected soon to back up his message. The prediction that North Korea would push ahead with a nuclear test before the midterms in the United States in November was wrong, perhaps because it ignored the North's politics. If the past is any guide, North Korea conducted nuclear tests on or just prior to politically meaningful days. If the North does not conduct a test in January or February, it could be delayed to July 27, the anniversary of the Korean War armistice signing, which is called 'the Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War' in North Korea, or later.”

Koreatimes

Director of the Center for North Korean Studies at the Sejong Institute

02 Jan 2023 2 3

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 1 year ago

“It highlights the importance and necessity of mass producing tactical nuclear weapons and calls for an exponential increase of the country's nuclear arsenal.”

Aljazeera

Leader of North Korea

01 Jan 2023 2 4

Joe Biden

Inserted 1 year ago

“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis. For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, if in fact things continue down the path they'd been going. Putin is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his military is, you might say, is significantly underperforming.”

Reuters

President of the United States

06 Oct 2022 5 3

Harry Kazianis

Inserted 1 year ago

“The war in Ukraine means that North Korea will be able to test all sorts of weapons ― hypersonic missiles, submarine-launched systems, nuclear weapons and of course ICBMs ― and pay no penalty as Washington is distracted while Russia and China are unwilling to help. The Kim Jong-un regime will certainly test as much as they can during this unique time period, driving Washington and its allies to increase their own military capabilities. That means not only are we in for an arms race in Northeast Asia, but the stage is set for Japan and South Korea to actively consider developing and deploying their own nuclear weapons. We are far beyond a simple arms race at this point.”

Koreatimes

Senior director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest

06 Oct 2022 7 3

Yuri Fyodorov

Inserted 1 year ago

“He [Vladimir Putin] is bluffing right now. But what will happen in a week or a month from now is difficult to say - when he understands the war is lost.”

Aljazeera

Military analyst based in Prague

04 Oct 2022 5 1

Sidharth Kaushal

Inserted 1 year ago

“That's very much what the Russians would be gambling on, that each escalation provides the other side with both a threat but (also) an offramp to negotiate with Russia.”

Aljazeera

Research fellow at the Rusi think tank

04 Oct 2022 2 1

Ramzan Kadyrov

Inserted 1 year ago

“In my personal opinion, more drastic measures should be taken, right up to the declaration of martial law in the border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons.”

Aljazeera

Russian and Chechen politician serving as the Head of the Chechen Republic

01 Oct 2022 2 2

Tatiana Stanovaya

Inserted 1 year ago

“The way that Putin speaks about Ukraine, it is clear that for him this is an existential problem. For him, if Russia doesn't win in Ukraine, there won't be a Russia. Russia is demonstrating that it is ready to use any means at its disposal to achieve its strategic goals. Including nuclear weapons.”

Theguardian

Founder of the political analysis firm R.Politik

30 Sep 2022 4 3

Sergei Ryabkov

Inserted 1 year ago

“We are not threatening anyone with nuclear weapons. The criteria for their use are outlined in Russia's military doctrine.”

Aljazeera

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister

23 Sep 2022 1 2

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 1 year ago

“The aim of the United States is not just to eliminate our nuclear weapons themselves but also ultimately to bring down our regime anytime by forcing (North Korea) to put down nuclear weapons and give up or weaken the power to exercise self-defense.”

Koreatimes

Leader of North Korea

09 Sep 2022 2 2

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 1 year ago

“Through unheard of sanctions and blockade(s) … they are trying to lead us but to give up the nuclear weapons of our own accord. But never! Let them impose sanctions for 100, nay 1000 days, or even 10 or 100 years.”

Aljazeera

Leader of North Korea

08 Sep 2022 2 3

António Guterres

Inserted 1 year ago

“The meeting is an opportunity to hammer out the measures that will help avoid certain disaster, and to put humanity on a new path towards a world free of nuclear weapons. We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict.”

Aljazeera

Secretary-general of the United Nations

01 Aug 2022 2 1

Anatol Lieven

Inserted 1 year ago

“The Russian navy, surface navy at least, is outnumbered four to one by NATO European members alone and by far more by the American navy - so in terms of numbers, there is no contest. Where Russia is equal to the US is in nuclear weapons, which is why President Putin repeatedly emphasises Russia's missile technology because this is the one area in which Russia is still a superpower. The Russian navy has always been considered to have had a relatively high morale and good commanders but it cannot realistically fight NATO … The only area where the navy is actually in action is in the Black Sea and Russia cannot reinforce the navy in the Black Sea.”

Aljazeera

Senior research fellow on Russia and Europe at the Quincy Institute of Responsible Statecraft

31 Jul 2022 7 3

Kim Gunn

Inserted 1 year ago

“Our trilateral cooperation is essential for responding to challenges posed by North Korea. North Korea's relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons will only end up strengthening our deterrence. This will ultimately run counter to Pyongyang's own interests.”

Koreatimes

South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs

03 Jun 2022 4 3

Sanna Marin

Inserted 1 year ago

“Nor do I think there is any interest in deploying nuclear weapons or opening NATO bases in Finland.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Finland

18 May 2022 3 3

William Burns

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think he's [Vladimir Putin] in a frame of mind in which he doesn't believe he can afford to lose. I think he's convinced right now that doubling down still will enable him to make progress. We don't see, as an intelligence community, practical evidence at this point of Russian planning for the deployment or even potential use of tactical nuclear weapons. Given the kind of sabre-rattling that … we've heard from the Russian leadership, we can't take lightly those possibilities. So we stay very sharply focused as an intelligence service … on those possibilities at a moment when the stakes are very high for Russia.”

Aljazeera

CIA Director

07 May 2022 3 3

Dmitry Medvedev

Inserted 2 years ago

“No sane person wants higher prices and higher taxes, increased tensions along borders, Iskanders, hypersonics and ships with nuclear weapons literally at arm's length from their own home. Let's hope that the common sense of our northern neighbours [Sweden and Finland] will win.”

Reuters

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman

14 Apr 2022 6 7

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“It highlights the importance and necessity of mass producing tactical nuclear weapons and calls for an exponential increase of the country's nuclear arsenal.”

“He [Vladimir Putin] is bluffing right now. But what will happen in a week or a month from now is difficult to say - when he understands the war is lost.”

“That's very much what the Russians would be gambling on, that each escalation provides the other side with both a threat but (also) an offramp to negotiate with Russia.”

“In my personal opinion, more drastic measures should be taken, right up to the declaration of martial law in the border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons.”

“We are not threatening anyone with nuclear weapons. The criteria for their use are outlined in Russia's military doctrine.”

“The aim of the United States is not just to eliminate our nuclear weapons themselves but also ultimately to bring down our regime anytime by forcing (North Korea) to put down nuclear weapons and give up or weaken the power to exercise self-defense.”

“Through unheard of sanctions and blockade(s) … they are trying to lead us but to give up the nuclear weapons of our own accord. But never! Let them impose sanctions for 100, nay 1000 days, or even 10 or 100 years.”

“Our trilateral cooperation is essential for responding to challenges posed by North Korea. North Korea's relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons will only end up strengthening our deterrence. This will ultimately run counter to Pyongyang's own interests.”

“Nor do I think there is any interest in deploying nuclear weapons or opening NATO bases in Finland.”

“No sane person wants higher prices and higher taxes, increased tensions along borders, Iskanders, hypersonics and ships with nuclear weapons literally at arm's length from their own home. Let's hope that the common sense of our northern neighbours [Sweden and Finland] will win.”

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