William Tobey, an atomic non-multiplication master who hosts participated in past Six Get-together Talks with North Korea, says any individual who cases to consummately comprehend the inspirations of the North Korean government, and does not live in Pyongyang, is most likely blowing smoke. 

Be that as it may, Tobey and most specialists concur that North Korean pioneer Kim Jong-un's No. 1 objective is self-protection. For Kim, the quest for atomic weapons and a rocket program is a judicious approach to fight off endeavors by the U.S. to topple his administration. 

"I think the vast majority credit an inspiration of administration conservation to their atomic projects," Tobey said. "So it is utilized to hinder any assaults that would be gone for dislodging the legislature." 

Atomic 'fortune sword' 

The North Korean government has said as much in its open explanations, Tobey stated, and those ought to be taken "at confront esteem." 

A discourse distributed by North Korea's state KCNA news organization in January a year ago expressed that "history demonstrates that intense atomic prevention fills in as the most grounded treasure sword for baffling outcast's animosity." 

The piece proposed North Korea fears enduring an indistinguishable death from Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi's Libya, that neither could "get away from the destiny of annihilation in the wake of being denied of their establishments of atomic advancement and surrendering undeclared projects voluntarily." 

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Philip Yun, a previous senior guide to two U.S. co-ordinators for North Korea at the Department of State, said that he has been in many hours of arrangements with the North Koreans. "Each and every time amid that period, they discussed [Slobodan] Milosevic and they discussed Saddam Hussein and along these lines discussed Gadhafi — in the event that they had atomic weapons regardless they'd be there."