North Korea is a nuclear rogue state . India faces bigger rogues.

The BBC published an interview with Kim Kuk-song who "spent 30 years working his way to the top ranks of North Korea's powerful spy agencies". "He claims he kept their secrets, sent assassins to kill their critics, and even built an illegal drugs-lab to help raise 'revolutionary' funds." It is no surprise that Kim Jong Un murders anyone he suspects, smuggles drugs to raise money and relies on nuclear weapons for his own safety. All rogue states smuggle drugs. Afghanistan is one of the largest sources of heroin which the Americans failed to stop and neither can the Taliban, Brookings. "Under international pressure, China's government banned the production and sale of fentanyl and many of its variants in May 2019, resulting in a significant reduction in the country's illicit fentanyl trade," npr. "But more than a year later, Chinese vendors have tapped into online networks to brazenly market fentanyl analogs and precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl and ship them directly to customers in the US and Europe as well as to Mexican cartels." Pakistan has been using drones to drop packets of heroin inside Indian territory, prompting our Border Security Force to shoot whenever they sight one of these drones, News18. As for assassinating opponents, Kim Jong Un was responsible for the killing of his half-brother Kim Jong Nam when he was attacked with VX nerve agent inside Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia on 13 February 2017, wikipedia. Following the assassination, Malaysian citizens and diplomats were taken hostage inside North Korea to ensure that its own citizens were not charged for the crime by Malaysian police, Business Insider. Eventually there was an exchange of citizens. In March 2021, Malaysia extradited a North Korean suspected of money laundering to the US, resulting in a breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two nations, Hindustan Times. US experts may believe that nuclear weapons make North Korea unsafe, voanews, because it becomes a target of US weapons but the North is probably more worried about South Korea which is a developed nation with a per capita GDP of $42,728 and a very high standard of living, usnews. Kim Jong Un has definitely not forgotten how East Germans broke the Berlin Wall in 1989 because they wanted the same quality of life as in the West, wikipedia. South Korea's capital city Seoul is only about 35 miles from the border with North Korea, wusa9.com. If Kim Jong Un can convince residents of Seoul that he is a mentally unstable monster armed with nuclear weapons they will not allow their government to retaliate even after the North torpedoed a South Korean navy ship Cheonan in 2010 and then shelled Yeongpyeong island killing two civilians. The biggest rogue country is China which, unfortunately has a long border with India and Pakistan and it was China that helped these two subordinate rogue nations to build nuclear weapons, usnews. It would be no surprise if North Korea is helping Iran to build nuclear weapons. India is surrounded by rogue nations. North Korea is small in comparison.