Joe Biden's National Security Strategy Highlights Nuclear Threats of Russia, Iran and North Korea

In a report defining US security goals and foreign policy objectives, the Biden administration saw Washington's largest problem as Beijing's escalating rivalry with the US.

The National Security Strategy (NSS), a report required by Congress that outlines the nation's interests and policies abroad, was made public by the White House on Wednesday.

Report Outlines US Security Strategy

President Joe Biden's NSS continues where the previous report, which was published in 2017 when Donald Trump was in office, left off by emphasizing China as the United States' main opponent.

In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US administration also emphasized the necessity of constraining Russia and found avenues for expanding international collaboration, especially with rivals. The oncoming crisis in Ukraine prevented the study from being released last year as planned.

According to the NSS, Russia's actions that culminated in the invasion of Ukraine pose an immediate and ongoing threat to international peace and security. The NSS asserted that small authoritarian regimes are acting aggressively in ways that pose a threat to international order.

About efforts to revive the 2015 multilateral agreement that saw Tehran curtail its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, the NSS stated that the US will seek diplomacy to ensure that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon, as per Aljazeera.

The strategy plan was delayed last winter as it became evident that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine and that the US's alliance with its allies in Europe was set to face a severe test.

In addition to warnings to Moscow that were added to reflect a new period of containment, the word used during the Cold War to control the main issue at the time: Soviet expansionism, the revised statement also praises a new cohesion among NATO countries.

The national security policy is a combination of direction, a signal of intent to allies and adversaries, and, frequently, a self-celebratory ode to American might for every administration, according to New York Times.

In the meantime, the current national security policy unveiled by the United States on Wednesday, which was mostly concerned with how it will handle its escalating rivalry with China, restated its resolve to fully denuclearize the Korean Peninsula through diplomatic means.

It was said that the nation would keep enhancing and growing its partnerships to accomplish both goals. This year, North Korea conducted more than twenty missile tests, including seven rounds of launches.

Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor, underlined the importance of US alliances. President Joe Biden said the new security strategy intends to outmaneuver geopolitical enemies while bolstering US friends to solve shared concerns. He said, "We have positioned relationships at the center of this agenda," in a telephone press conference, Yonhap News reported.

Russia, North Korea, Iran Nuclear Weapons Are Threats to US

North Korea and Russia consider the United States their most dangerous foe, and both governments have concluded that using nuclear weapons on the battlefield is their only realistic option for defending themselves. The current scenario is becoming more volatile as a result of Putin and Kim's aggressive styles and high-risk tolerance for utilizing possibly disastrous means to challenge Washington's supremacy and power projection in the world.

Given the fundamentally opposed worldviews and governance styles of the US and NATO on the one hand, and Russia and North Korea on the other, both regimes, which are subject to heavy sanctions, have concluded that their relationship with the West is irretrievably damaged.

In addition, Kim Jong Un has upped the production of atomic bombs and expedited missile testing to previously unheard-of heights. As of March, he was able to launch a full-range intercontinental ballistic missile that might target the US mainland.

The newly formed Putin-Kim partnership is a grave security issue for Washington. Russia is the only nation with the ability to obliterate the motherland with a strategic nuclear strike and has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.

The deputy assistant director of the CIA's Korea Mission Center described North Korea's efforts to develop nuclear weapons capacity as quite reasonable rather than insane. The term peaceful use is frequently used by adversaries, including Iran, North Korea, and others, as a pretext for acquiring dual-use technology, such as nuclear, cyber, and space, to build up their military-grade capabilities, as per Fox News.