A U.S.-based nuclear weapons expert claims.... the Trump administration could be fine with accepting North Korea as a nuclear state.<br />Quoting Jeffrey Lewis, a scholar at the Middlebury Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies,... the Washington Post published an article on Monday.... which said the administration's stance could be shifting.<br />Lewis focused on the remarks that U.S. President Trump made following his hastily-arranged encounter with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the DMZ late last month.<br />Trump did not mention denuclearization at all, only highlighted (quote) "deliberate speed."<br />The interpretation is in line with the idea Washington could negotiate a nuclear freeze with Pyeongyang,... as was published by the New York Times recently.<br />
