Tim Martin

North Korea has been very busy.

They've come near completion of a new facility at its main Yongbyon nuclear site.

There's more activity from a five megawatt reactor, a reprocessing unit, a light water reactor.

They're conducting missile tests left and right.

They just did one over the weekend with cluster munitions.

This is Kim Jong-un exploding the moment.

He has a nuclear bomb.

He's perceived to be under no threat of a regime overthrow.

The U.S.

is not threatening to invade North Korea.

In fact, President Trump has often spoken of his close relationship with Kim Jong-un.

And Moscow and Beijing have given all types of political, economic, and military protection to Pyongyang.

I think that's what that's what world events show.

Iran on the precipice of a nuclear program has made it a target by the Trump administration.

We can look at Venezuela, Cuba, other countries that have nothing amounting to a nuclear program.

but have also made them vulnerable to intimidation and tactics.

There are certainly international agencies that still raise alarm about North Korea's nuclear advances.

In fact, Rafael Grossi, the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency chief, recently said, all this activity points to a very serious increase in their capabilities.

But what's the ability to stop, thwart, convince North Korea not to go down this nuclear pathway?

That has more or less been eliminated.