North Korea is a isolated country run by a paranoid and oppressive dictator, Kim Jong-il, who will not create close foreign relations with anyone except China and Russia.
If North Korea obtained nuclear weapons, then there would be no way to liberate the people that are trapped inside the carefully watched border. Any attempt at liberation would likely result in a war, possibly leading to the use of nuclear weapons (North Korea being the first to fire any nuclear arms).
The lack of information that flows out of (and into) North Korea leaves much speculation on their motives of obtaining nuclear technology and nothing can be considered completely conclusive without solid evidence or testimony.
North Korea has already built nuclear weapons. So it doesn't really matter whether anyone believes that they should or shouldn't be allowed to do so. The next question would be, should North Korea be allowed to keep its nuclear weapons? It would be better to overthrow the Kim dynasty and take away the nuclear weapons and introduce democracy and reunification with South Korea, but those things would be very difficult to do. The existing dictatorship is heavily armed and will fight to the death to prevent its own replacement by better government. So, we play a waiting game. If North Korea becomes sufficiently dangerous, the world will react. For now, it is mostly bluster. North Korea has promised to launch missiles against the US, but so far it has not done so.
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because that makes them stronger and us weaker because we are not allowed to make them.
Question is kinda academic, as they already have them.
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North Korea does. Not South Korea.
Many countries have nuclear weapons today including the United States. China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan also have nuclear weapons.
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North Korea's development of nuclear weapons has served as a major deterrent for Western incursions into North Korea as well as increased fear from democratic neighbors like Japan and South Korea.
The information given to the general public (me & you) leads to the conclusion; North Korea has nuclear arms, but struggles to maintain the weapons.
They mostly manufacture nuclear weapons.