BBC Minute: On North Korea's atomic ambitions

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In the fourth part of this BBC Minute series on North Korea we're exploring its nuclear capabilities. In 2017 the Nobel peace prize went to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Yet recently Pyongyang edged one step closer to becoming, what it calls, 'a nuclear state.' With no successful diplomatic solutions to disarm it, could a nuclear armed North Korea encourage other countries to build their nuclear stockpiles? We asked the BBC's Defence and Diplomatic correspondent, Jonathan Marcus. (Photo: This picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 16, 2017 shows Korean People's ballistic missiles being displayed through Kim Il-Sung square during a military parade in Pyongyang marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, Credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images)