Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions may grow with time
North Korea may be yet to settle on an envisaged end point and ultimate goal of its nuclear programme
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- Status quo goal
- Revisionist goals
- Unification?
- Bargaining or blackmail?
- Bargaining
- Nuclear blackmail
- How much is enough?
- Minimum deterrence
- Ability to strike the US mainland
- Mutually assured destruction
- Open-ended programme
- Unsettled aim
- Implications
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