(Handout/Getty Images)Every time North Korea does something provocative — which is often — Washington insists that Pyongyang must give up its nuclear weapons program. The Obama and Bush administrations before it also repeatedly insisted that North Korea must denuclearize. The Trump administration won’t admit it, but North Korea is now a nuclear weapons power, analysts say. [ Senior U.N. official to visit North Korea this week ]In both public and private meetings in Europe this year, North Korean representatives have repeatedly insisted on being accepted as a nuclear-armed state. CIA Director Mike Pompeo said in October that North Korea was only a matter of months away from perfecting its nuclear weapons program.

Source: Washington Post December 09, 2017 23:26 UTC