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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs have continued despite the pandemic. Pyongyang may accelerate plans to modernize its arsenal to build leverage in case of potential negotiations with the Biden administration. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Check your email for details on your request. Despite North Korea’s low profile throughout the coronavirus pandemic so fa...

Kim Jong Un’s New Missile Points to Early Provocations for Biden Bloomberg 16/01/2021 Jon Herskovitz and Jeong-Ho Lee (Bloomberg) -- Kim Jong Un has rolled out a lot of new missiles in recent months, including at least one more this week. The next step is for him to fire them into the air to get President-elect Joe Biden’s attention. The North Korean leader paraded a new submarine-launched ballistic missile through central Pyongyang Thursday as part of a military pageant t...

North Korea displayed new submarine-launched ballistic missiles under development and other military hardware in a parade that underlined leader Kim Jong Un’s defiant calls to expand the country’s nuclear weapons program.

"It was decided to pursue related measures so that there would be no gaps in efforts to advance the ROK-US relations and advance the peace process on the Korean Peninsula ahead of the launch of the

Sriram Lakshman, The Hindu. JANUARY 13, 2021. Read original news here. The 10-page document outlines objectives and strategies with regard to China, North Korea, India and other countries in the Indo-Pacific region Washington: With days to go before its end, the Tru

At the Eighth Party Congress, the North Korean leader also spoke of submarines, satellites and more SHARE Image: KCNA The following analysis is written by Ankit Panda, the Stanton senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. See part one of Panda’s Eighth Party Congress weapons analysis here. Last week, North Korea unveiled future goals to boost its nuclear forces and modernize its military, suggesting a potential testing campaign on the horiz...

Based on his history and his campaign rhetoric, Mr. Biden is unlikely to pursue the kinds of high-stakes direct meetings with Mr. Kim that Mr. Trump favored. The incoming president is instead expected to return to the policy of “strategic patience” embraced during the final years of the George W. Bush administration and throughout the Obama era, when Mr. Biden was vice president. The approach will likely revolve around efforts to continue isolating Pyongyang through U.S. and United Nations ...

Kim Jong Un Appears to Hold Military Parade After Blasting U.S. Bloomberg 1/11/2021 Jeong-Ho Lee and Jon Herskovitz (Bloomberg) -- North Korea appeared to stage a military parade as part of a grand party congress that laid out the scale of the challenge U.S. President-elect Joe Biden faces to rein in Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program. There were signs that North Korea held a parade late Sunday evening, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday, in what would be the seco...

The country has a history of testing new US presidents with provocations.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The comments made by North Korea's leader offer the first significant signals of how he intends to approach his relationship with the new administration in the White House.