Indeed, if North Korea was looking for an excuse to advance its nuclear program, it found it in Russia's invasion of Ukraine..

The fact that one of the few countries that voluntarily gave up its nuclear arsenal, Ukraine, is now under attack by the very same country to which it once transferred its nuclear warheads has become a trump card for Pyongyang.. Moscow's actions effectively gave the go-ahead to a rogue state to speed up its nuclear program.

Not only will North Korea use Ukraine's plight to justify the need for nuclear weapons to provide its own security guarantees, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may be quietly turning his affairs around while all eyes are now on Ukraine.. Divided by Russia’s war against Ukraine, the international community now has little interest in coming up with sanctions for the “Kingdom of Rogue Eun”.

Moreover, a boycott of Russian oil and gas could open the door wider to energy deals between ideological allies Pyongyang and Moscow, whose friendship dates back to the Korean War in the 1950s..

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Recently, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un promised to accelerate the development of his country's nuclear arsenal, and negotiations in the United States on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula stalled, where they remain to this day..