North Korea near the ICBM which can strike us with a nuclear weapon, says the South Korean chief

North Korea is about to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile that could strike the United States with a nuclear weapon, said South Korea president on Thursday – although he added that He has not yet controlled the last crucial step.

North Korea has increased its missile tests since the interviews between President Donald Trump and leader Kim Jong one collapsed in 2019 in the midst of disagreements on the sanctions led by the United States against the isolated state. Trump has declared several times since his return to functions he would like to resume diplomacy with Kim.

Speaking Thursday in New York, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said that North Korea seems to have enough nuclear weapons for “regime survival” and that it continues to produce nuclear materials and develop ICBM capable of providing nuclear warheads in the continental United States

“He does not seem to have yet succeeded, but there is only one last step left – what is called atmospheric reintegration technology,” Lee said at an investment summit on the New York Stock Exchange. “This too should be resolved soon.”

If the status quo is authorized to continue, North Korea will add approximately 15 to 20 nuclear warheads each year, said Lee, and its ICBM technology will advance to the point where it has more warheads than it needs to defend itself.

“What about excess? The concern is that they will export them,” he said.

Lee reiterated a proposal he made in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, calling for a progressive solution to the North Korean nuclear problem which recognizes that denuclearization will not be carried out in the near future.

Instead, he said, the objective should be that North Korea first froze its nuclear weapons program, then reduce it and finally dismantle it.

The realization of this will force Kim to negotiate with someone in whom he trusts, and Trump “is only positioned to be this counterpart,” said Lee.

“If peace can be forged on the last divided peninsula in the world, it will be a truly historical achievement in the world for peacebuilding-the accomplishment of a real peacemaker,” he said.

North Korea has made significant progress in its nuclear and ballistic missile programs in the absence of talks.

Last year, he tested his greatest ICBM to date, the Hwasong-19, which, according to experts, could reach anywhere in the United States-although they are skeptical about what North Korea has the ability to guide the missile and protect a nuclear warhead when I got into the atmosphere.

Kim has also deepened the military cooperation of his country with Russia, sending artillery and thousands of soldiers to support the war of President Vladimir Putin against Ukraine.

The North Korean regime now says that the United States and others have no choice but to accept it as a state of nuclear weapons.

On Thursday, the South Korean Minister of Unification, Chung Dong-Young, said that North Korea operated a total of four uranium enrichment facilities, including the only site declared in Yongbyon, about 60 miles north of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.

Chung also said that North Korea seemed to have greatly increased its highly enriched uranium stock for the construction of nuclear weapons.

Kim said on Sunday that even if he had “good personal memories” of his meetings with Trump, there was no reason to resume talks unless the United States “abandoned his delusional obsession with denuclearization”.

He also rejected Lee’s openings to peace, in particular the suspension of the traces of air propaganda leaflets and speakers’ broadcasts along the border between the two Koreas, which remain technically at war after the 1950-1953 Korea War ending with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.

The gradual solution of the exchange of exchange, standardization and denuclearization – known as “end” – is a clear gap compared to the previous approach of the “denuclearization of the international community first”, said Yang Moo -Jin, a distinguished professor at the University of North Korean studies in Seoul, South Korea.

His proposal is “the last attempt at significant peace in current circumstances,” Yang said in a text message at NBC News.

It comes after a meeting of the White House between Lee and Trump last month which was generally considered a success, Trump telling journalists he would like to meet Kim this year.

“The chemistry between President Trump and President Lee could create the conditions most favorable to North Korea to come to the negotiation table and engage in a rational dialogue,” said Yang.