Nuclear weapons dominate North Korea's foreign and domestic policy; diplomatic engagement is the only way to encourage regime change.

Recent months have seen rising rhetoric between Washington DC and Pyongyang over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. But why is the North Korean regime so keen on developing such weapons? Vuk Vuksanovic argues that for North Korea's Kim Jong Un nuclear weapons act as a deterrent to international intervention, an instrument of foreign policy, and as a way of maintaining ...