There will be no need for the DPRK to keep a single nuclear weapon if the DPRK-US relations are normalized, bilateral confidence is built and the DPRK is not exposed to the US nuclear threat any longer.

Under the circumstances in which the US, the world's only superpower is looking down on us, threatening with nuclear weapons, the DPRK with a small territory and population (23 million people), has no alternative but to possess legitimate self-defense means.