Fat boy "“has larger ambitions" -Pentagon

5-23-18    A Pentagon report, based on classified Defense Intelligence Agency findings, notes that recent statements from Pyongyang indicate that the regime believes it is nearing a “final victory” over the United States and South Korea and suggests Mr. Kim “has larger ambitions, including [the] use of nuclear weapons to deter interference if it attempts to reunify the Korean Peninsula.” ...

  Another indicator of North Korea’s attachment to nuclear arms was the enactment of a law in 2013 declaring the country a nuclear weapons state.  The law justifies the nuclear program and is “another signal that it does not intend to give up its pursuit of nuclear development.”  The law gives Mr. Kim the power to deploy nuclear arms to repel an invasion or attack from a hostile nuclear weapons state and to make retaliatory strikes. ...The Dalian meeting between Mr. Xi and Mr. Kim suggests that China has agreed to supply more economic aid to North Korea as a way to keep the nation within Beijing’s geopolitical orbit.     

                              -William Gertz

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/23/kim-jong-uns-surrender-of-north-korea-nuclear-arms/