31 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

As well as India, UK, France, Pakistan and India? In a way Pakistan's nuclear capability (I'm sure in their minds) stands as the only deterrent against the larger India military to counter India's projection of foreign diplomacy. North Korean leadership might see that as analogous to its own relationship with a nuclear US that consistently expresses regime change in North Korea.

I presume one of your India's should be Israel?

How Trump Went From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Dismissing North Korean Nuclear Advances

"The president regularly calls Iran a major nuclear threat, even though it no longer has enough fuel to make a single nuclear weapon. Under the 2015 agreement, it shipped 97 percent of its nuclear material out of the country. And it never possessed nuclear weapons.

Yet Mr. Trump pulled out after concluding that the United States gave away too much in return for an agreement that would gradually allow the Iranians to resume production around 2030."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/us/politics/trump-north-korea-nuclear.html