Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state.

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North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

— John Bolton

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.

— Kim Young-sam

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I don't like the fact that North Korea is testing nuclear weapons, and I don't like the fact that they're testing missiles and shooting them out in the sea in kind of an antagonistic fashion.

— Scott DesJarlais

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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

— Barbara Demick