A Panoramic Espousal of the Nature of Nuclear Weapons: Implications of the Production and Stockpiling of the Weapons by North Korea (1)
By Ifeanyi Chukwunonso OGBODO Esq. LL.B (Hons), B.L Email: iogbodo@gmail.com Introduction In his recent state visit to South Korea, President Trump amidst the pomp and ceremony gave an address with less threats; a stunt recoil of his first speech at the United Nations General Assembly where he stated that United States will totally destroy North Korea if it failed to stop its nuclear programme. Trump devoted a large part of his address to detailing the human rights abuses that the Kims have committed in North Korea, filling his speech with words like “tyrant” “fascism” and “cult”. He painfully described North Korea as not just a home to a dictator with nuclear weapons but 25million people who suffer under him —malnutrition among children, suppression of religion, forced labour at prison camps where north Koreans endure torture, starvation, rape and murder. The sheer scale of the casualties and destruction resulting from the use of a nuclear weapon in or near a populated