south korea and they have of course left the door open if they're not satisfied with how these summits play out they could go back on this pleasure they could begin testing weapons again but this is nevertheless an encouraging sign compared to some of the hostile rhetoric we see from north korea all right let's get back to that point over that often what about the existing nuclear weapons he claims to have developed what will happen to that. well north korea invested a ton of resorts his and energy into developing those nuclear weapons and they have neglected the economy in that neck that neglected a lot of things that governments normally do with the resources and favor of developing nuclear weapons so we cannot expect that they will just suddenly decide to give those up they obviously feel like those nuclear weapons provide them with some kind of legitimacy to be and what they wanted for a long time is for the international community to recognize north korea as a nuclear power and it seems like now they feel as though they've come to