There would be only one nation that would remotely resemble NK's situation... and that is israel.
With the exception that israel doesnt blackmail their neighbourhood with a nuclear holocaust, let their citizens starve or put hundred thousands of civilians in nazi germany style KZ's.
Except if those citizens of theirs happened to be palestinians and living at the Gaza strip or the West bank. Otherwise Israel didn't blackmail their neighbourhood with a nuclear holocaust indeed...err...maybe with a few exceptions... like Lebanon ('82), Iraq ('91, '01-'03), Iran (ongoing)
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Please dont troll yourself.
Palestina/Gaza: so people there are starving, getting tortured, killed and have to do forced labour? Last time i checked the jews are even giving finacial aid. Even though there are a lot of problems it would be delusional to say palestinians are living in a big german style KZ.
Nuclear weapons: israel had several wars since 67 and they didnt even once used the nuclear option.
They dont blackmail adversaries with the bomb because that would go against their doctrine of nuclear ambiguity and from different international intelligence and .gov sources we know that israel will only use the nuclear option if:
1. Israels military defense gets penetrated and the enemy is walking towards cities.
2. Israels airforce is destroyed.
3. Usage of biological and chemical weapons against israel.
4. Usage of nuclear weapons against israel.
Israel doesnt shoot missiles every 3 months in direction of their arab neighbours.
Ps: can you please pull some sources for israels public threat of using nuclear bombs? I cant find anything about it.
Or do you mean the preemptive strikes against iraqs (conventional attack) and irans (cyber attack) nuclear reactors.