Dictator Un may feel a need for nuclear weapons to safeguard his own political position. China has tons of nuclear weapons, the need for North Korea to have its own nuclear force for war is illogical and a poor substitute for peaceful free enterprise and neo-socialist economic progress with South Korea.
The work of making nuclear weapons is an intellectual as well as a material game. The 1992 Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula that the Clinton administration got through was something of a sham. Realistically it allowed North Korea to continue to develop its nuclear program through alternative means while IAEA inspectors toured NK facilities, except for those declared military facilities and off-limits. A couple of nuclear reactors for energy and heavy fuel oil were allowed in during the slow-down in direct plutonium production in exchange for enduring Sect. Albright dancing before the old dictator.
There is a fair history of the NK nuclear diplomacy game here… North Korea Nuclear Technology & Nuclear Weapons Program
Apparently NK developed thermonuclear bombs and may have exploded one in 2017. There are of course nuclear fission and fusion bombs with the latter more powerful. Scientists do a lot of theoretical work without hardware. Dictator Kim has lots of espionage and negotiating people able to get Do-It-Yourself books on building and improving nuclear weapons.
image diagram of 'Little Boy' in public domain via wiki
NK may be working on miniaturizing a nuclear weapon so it could be delivered secretly in some way to Washington DC. Maybe they are making progress on that. Some Democrats might think that o.k., as might a sprinkling of fiscal conservatives who view the 93 trillion dollar Green Deal as a trillion too far.
Pelosi says she's "glad" Trump walked away from North Korea summit with no deal
Fundamentally Dictator Kim can continue to develop nuclear war technology under the table with more help from Iran, Pakistan, Russia and China, and with appeasement Democrat Party symps. The question of his ending the economic division with the south isn’t too difficult to answer; he really can’t for he is a Dictator that many of his own people would like to terminate if they could, I would think. The Kim Dynasty probably will continue along with nuclear war tech until NK is saturated with nuclear weapons and with no good chance to safely use them.
The work of making nuclear weapons is an intellectual as well as a material game. The 1992 Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula that the Clinton administration got through was something of a sham. Realistically it allowed North Korea to continue to develop its nuclear program through alternative means while IAEA inspectors toured NK facilities, except for those declared military facilities and off-limits. A couple of nuclear reactors for energy and heavy fuel oil were allowed in during the slow-down in direct plutonium production in exchange for enduring Sect. Albright dancing before the old dictator.
There is a fair history of the NK nuclear diplomacy game here… North Korea Nuclear Technology & Nuclear Weapons Program
Apparently NK developed thermonuclear bombs and may have exploded one in 2017. There are of course nuclear fission and fusion bombs with the latter more powerful. Scientists do a lot of theoretical work without hardware. Dictator Kim has lots of espionage and negotiating people able to get Do-It-Yourself books on building and improving nuclear weapons.
image diagram of 'Little Boy' in public domain via wiki
NK may be working on miniaturizing a nuclear weapon so it could be delivered secretly in some way to Washington DC. Maybe they are making progress on that. Some Democrats might think that o.k., as might a sprinkling of fiscal conservatives who view the 93 trillion dollar Green Deal as a trillion too far.
Pelosi says she's "glad" Trump walked away from North Korea summit with no deal
Fundamentally Dictator Kim can continue to develop nuclear war technology under the table with more help from Iran, Pakistan, Russia and China, and with appeasement Democrat Party symps. The question of his ending the economic division with the south isn’t too difficult to answer; he really can’t for he is a Dictator that many of his own people would like to terminate if they could, I would think. The Kim Dynasty probably will continue along with nuclear war tech until NK is saturated with nuclear weapons and with no good chance to safely use them.