Nuclear poker Kim Jong -un. In this game, the North Korean regime, oddly enough, is still winning

One of the first in a series of associations at the mention of North Korea is the phrase “atomic bomb”. The DPRK missile and nuclear program is exactly what cares for politicians and military leading countries of the world and provides Korean problems with bonus places in world diplomacy, news and analytics. If it were not for the nuclear ambitions of Pyongyan, it is unlikely that anyone would be so interested in the sixth ten in the sixth of the population, just above the former Volta, and not far from it, which had gone through the level of GDP closed by the country

Testing the ballistic missile, North Korea. 2017. Photo: Kcnawatch. Co / Global Look Press

Most of this year, North Korea rarely appeared in the headlines, but the “missile volley” in September-October again attracted attention to it. Recall that this fall Pyongyang experienced three new systems at once - cruise missiles, hypersonic media and underwater -based missile launched from the submarine. According to experts, the emergence of such weapons classes can “change the strategic situation” in the region.

Why did the North Koreans, having tightened their belts, gave so much effort to the military atom and missiles for decades? They believe that only a nuclear bomb will protect them from the onslaught of enemies who seek to destroy the regime? Or are they going to capture South Korea under the cover of a "nuclear shield"? Or do they use a “nuclear card” as a diplomatic trump card, including for blackmail? And the main question: what and to whom the DPRK missile-nuclear program threatens and in general-is it possible to solve this problem and how?

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