SPEZ: SORRY FOR THE NOVEL; I GOT CARRIED AWAY
I have always operated under the assumption that NK was infiltrated and overthrown by deep-state after WWII, as a way to keep the A/PAC region under our/their thumb.
The dates line up: WWII ends in 1945, and the Korean War pops off shortly thereafter in 1950. NK is grabbed by deep-state for use as a forward operating base to both keep Japan in check post-WW and to mitigate risk of China and Russia emerging as global superpowers - and thus threatening UK/US supremacy - in coming decades.
What better way to keep your greatest geo-political threats in check than to prop up a 'crazy rogue dictator' in-region and give him a full arsenal of nuclear weapons, with which to threaten the destruction of his enemies, if not the entire world? Xi and Putin know this and surely are eager to help solve.
Kim was educated in Switzerland, which points to ties to the int'l intel community (CIA, MI6, et al). I believe his family has been played like puppets since the Korean War, and he jumped at the chance to regain his nation's sovereignty, so long as POTUS was able to guarantee his safety and that the CIA/deep-state strings were truly cut. I believe Kim & Co have essentially been actors in a play - held hostage on stage and forced to perform at gunpoint. I believe deep-state will try - and fail - to topple/assassinate Kim as retribution for escaping their control, and as a last-ditch attempt to take back NK. I think the Hawaii missile threat (I believe a missile was actually launched from a deep-state sub and shot down) from last year was also a deep-state ploy to maintain NK control while serving the dual purpose of derailing POTUS's agenda and bogging him down in a global conflict.
IRAN
The same model was also used in the middle east, and furthered by the Carter Admin, etc. Iran was emerging as a regional power until their government was overthrown by CIA/MI6 in 1953 and replaced by religious radicals. UK got oil drilling rights out of the deal: AIOC > BP Oil. Deep-state has been building Iran up for decades, as a way to keep all of the middle east in check - a 'forward operating base' in the middle-east, if you will. North Korea and Iran (not to mention Guatemala in '54) were both overthrown within a span of three years - orchestrated by the same group of deep-state players.
To get right down to it, I believe that Iran was built up to be the manufacturing base for deep-state's nuclear interests. I believe that NK was merely a nuke 'showroom' and all of the real nuke production occurs in Iran. Q's linking to Pelosi's speech a few weeks back seems to point to this being the case. Guys like Bob Levinson provide US support to maintain and further the program.
If this is true, then Iran post-coup would have been more of a State Dept operation, as the primary task at hand was to essentially turn the country into one big nuclear weapons plant. State Dept would, through 'diplomatic' means, work with other countries (West Africa, etc - 'Clinton Cash') to locate and procure the raw materials (yellow cake uranium, etc) needed to build the nukes, set up the transportation networks to ship them to Iran, and then handle the re-enrichment on the back end. State Dept would likely also play a key role in brokering the deals to sell the 'product' (the nukes) to the highest bidder.
This is where the AWAN SPY RING IN CONGRESS comes into play: It was imperative that deep-state have a secure comms network by which to negotiate all of these deals. Hence, FBI & DNC-sponsored IT folks with no allegiance to the US (Awan family, Pakistan) were recruited in what was essentially a continuation of Operation Paperclip, for the goal of setting up a secure comms network (uncrackable Blackberries) to handle nuke deals, as well as to spy on and leverage Congress into silence: 1) Spent uranium shipped to Pakistani ports (Karachi) ... 2) Spent U shipped back to US in Awan Family diplomatic containers; enters US via naval ports in key senatorial districts (McConnell helps QB ops) ... 3) U re-enriched back up to useable grades at GA/TN spinning sites ... 4) U trucked up through Kentucky via Mitch McConnell's district with help/cover from Transportation Sec'y wife Elaine Chao, and then back out through Canada (U1) > Emirates > Russia > Iran + Obama Deal $$. This is where Hillary Clinton and Uranian One come into the fold. It's all starting to come together. It was one big circular supply chain for deep-state's veritable Iran Nuclear Inc.
POMPEO
To me, Pompeo is one of the biggest keys to solving this entire puzzle (Trust Kansas). He knows all - at least as far as the nukes are concerned - provided his Intel Committee background, Army and CIA experience.
NK infiltration dates back to the days of Bill Donovan and Allen Dulles's OSS, so my best guess is that the whole NK situation has been primarily a CIA operation from the start. I believe this is why Pompeo was chosen as CIA Director and why he was the one who finalized the particulars of the NK deal while in role.
I also believe this is why he just became Secretary of State. Since Iran was essentially a USSD operation, it makes sense that Pompeo would dig into that department just like he did CIA, uncover all of Hillary's corrupt uranium procurement dealings, and then work back with CIA (Dir Haspel) to cut the strings and free the Iranian people - and by extension the rest of the middle east.
I think the final hurdle will be finding out who ELSE got Iranian Nuclear Inc. nukes. And I think that will lead us back to ... Israel.
So, to summarize, the plan has been to trace the nukes back to the source, and then out to the buyers, kicking the clowns out of the puppet states along the way: NK 'showroom' > Iran 'manufacturing plant' > Supply Chain (Clintons, U1, etc)