The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), a newly “declared nuclear weapon state,” has been for decades considered a threat to international stability as well as to the international security environment. Its growing nuclear response to the outside aggression is very much evident in the international arena. It is to emphasise that the DPRK is a nuclear-ambitious state and has been in a process of acquiring nuclear weapons since after the Korean War of 1950. With time, its ambitions got stronger and it developed itself as a nuclear weapon state despite facing severe international backlash and harsh economic sanctions, which almost toppled the economic background of the state. Its behaviour is often marked as defiant and has very much been recoded throughout the decades, but the reasons behind its nuclear option are still not very much highlighted and ignorant. The DPRK’s potential nuclear threats are reflected as harming the stability and the already existing balance of the worl...
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