North Korea is on the verge of joining the nuclear power club. This view was expressed by the director of US National Intelligence, Daniel Coats, at the Security Forum in Aspen, Colorado.
The former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency, Michael Hayden, had also warned again about the danger that the country represents.
Mr Hayden said that if North Korea were to take the necessary measures, it would be able to reach the Pacific Northwest within half a decade with its bombs.
"It's a threat that affects Seattle more than many other parts of the country," he said.
To address the problem, Hayden appealed to recognize Pyongyang's nuclear power in exchange for certain limitations on its part regarding the permitted number of nuclear weapons. In his opinion, it would be a real way out of the dead highway where the United States and other countries, whose security is threatened by their nuclear weapons, were found.
However, the main question is whether it is possible to expand the "nuclear club" nowadays without this leading to dangerous consequences.
"There are no other options. Nuclear weapons are spreading. What is more dangerous? Legitimizing North Korean nuclear weapons and the country itself or continuing to attack it and hoping, in return, something unpredictable?" He asks himself. The political scientist, Vladimir Mozhegov, an expert on American affairs, in an interview with Svobodnaya Pressa.
He is sure that North Korea will exist as a country with only nuclear weapons. On the contrary, the United States would have dismantled it in the same way as it did with several Arab states.
Even so, the analyst stressed that Trump is adept at "real" politics. For him, the most important thing is to close a good deal. If the general line of American politics inclines to the strategy of the current president, it is very likely that North Korea will recognize itself as a nuclear power.
Today, only five countries have an official right to possess nuclear weapons: Russia (as successor to the USSR), the United States, the United Kingdom, France and China, recalled the deputy director of the National Institute of Modern Ideology, Igor Shatrov .
Since 1968, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has been in force, which prohibits other states from developing and testing atomic weapons. Despite this, India, Pakistan and North Korea have announced the creation of such weapons, while Israel is suspected of creating such weapons as well.
From this list, only North Korea provokes the constant concern of the world community, which many experts regard as a manifestation of "double standards," commented Shatrov.
According to him, Pyongyang does not expect its international recognition, since it would not change absolutely nothing for her. The country understands that a nuclear arsenal is the justification for the pressure and not the cause.
"I believe that if you agree to join the NPT, you would not agree with the installation of US nuclear weapons in South Korea, for which the US is really seeking a pretext," he concluded.
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