As speculation mounts that Kim Jong-un and Trump could meet this month, analysts say Pyongyang will continue to see nuclear weapons as a matter of survival

North Korea’s launch last week of a missile from a naval destroyer elicited an uncharacteristically prosaic analysis from the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un. The launch was proof, he said, that arming ships with nuclear weapons was “making satisfactory progress”.

But the test, and Kim’s mildly upbeat appraisal, were designed to reverberate well beyond the deck of the 5,000-tonne destroyer-class vessel the Choe Hyon – the biggest warship in the North Korean fleet.

His pointed reference to nuclear weapons was made as the US and Israel continued their air bombardment of Iran – a regime Donald Trump had warned, without offering evidence, was only weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.

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    3 hours ago

    when an internet rando tells me

    I stopped replying to you after the peace sign…

    Then that now banned account replied to me, and I replied back

    Is that banned account also you and you just switch between them?

    Or do you think every reply to any comment on here is actually to you?

    Even hours later, and to a different account…

    The only way this makes sense, is you switched accounts when I stopped replying, and then had to go to the original once your second was banned.