Maybe I haven’t had enough coffee yet, but I don’t really understand what he means by a North Korean model.
The North Korean model is based on acquiring nuclear weapons to prevent the outside world from disarming the country. But North Korea is no missionary state; it is merely a mad, isolationist state.
The Iranian leadership, for its part, intends to use nuclear weapons to bring about the Day of Judgment and summon the Twelfth Imam from the imaginary mist in which they, for some reason, believe. That is why it is necessary to clean up Iran.