And the second is that without a nuclear weapon, he believes his government would have no way of staving off the larger, richer powers around it: China, Japan, South Korea and the United States.

• 第二个意图是他认为，没有核武器，他的政府就没有办法避开它周围庞大的、富有的国家--中国，日本，韩国和美国。