North Korea With United States as 'Nuclear State' Agreement

The Trump administration won’t admit it, but North Korea is now a nuclear weapons power, analysts say.

Why would Kim Jong-un’s cash-strapped regime spend so much time and money on building these weapons only to give them up? And even if they were prepared to bargain them away eventually, why would they do so now, when Trump and his top aides are threatening military action?

In both public and private meetings in Europe this year, North Korean representatives have repeatedly insisted on being accepted as a nuclear-armed state.

Since coming to power, Kim Jong-un has ordered four nuclear tests, including the September detonation of what his regime claimed — and outside experts generally agree — was a hydrogen bomb. At the same time, he has presided over astonishing improvements in North Korea’s ballistic missile program, culminating in November with the launch of a missile that puts all of the United States technically within his reach.

His regime has made these advances despite increasingly tight international sanctions aimed at cutting off its access to funding and parts, and despite increasingly vehement warnings from its traditional patron, China. 

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