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The Winter Olympics in South Korea may spark a dialogue with North Korea, but dictator Kim Jong Un has shown no sign of ending his quest for nuclear weapons, and the hermit kingdom is not ready for a diplomatic solution, Japanese experts say.

In the last two years, the rogue dictatorship has significantly ramped up its nuclear and ballistic missile program. While South Korea and Japan have been under immediate threat for decades, recent tests have put North America’s west coast within range, and one expert expects missiles will “certainly” fly over Canada.

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Two weeks from now, Canada and the U.S. are set to co-host an international summit in Vancouver to discuss the growing nuclear threat, but Japanese officials and scholars recently told the National Post that dialogue for the sake of dialogue is meaningless.

And rumours abound that the Americans are ready for more than just talk.

President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that economic sanctions “are beginning to have a big impact,” but his administration has fuelled the idea that the U.S. could strike preemptively and attempt to take out North Korea’s nuclear arsenal in one shot. “All options are on the table,” he said in August, a position the Japanese foreign minister has upheld.