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The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, says he doesn’t believe the Biden administration’s assertions that it has no hostile intent against his country.

Nuclear Weapon Test, Bikini Atoll, 1954 In 2020, Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological disease. A collaborator with Harvard, the Radiation and Public Health […]

This charade doesn’t leave anyone safer. It’s gone on long enough. 

In its first reaction to President Biden’s summit with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, North Korean state media warned of an arms race.

“Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw three feet of dirt on top. . . . It’s the dirt that does it. . . . . If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it.” This bit of cheery advice was offered by Thomas K. […]

A Quiet Arms Race Is Rapidly Heating Up Between the Two Koreas The buildup over the last few years has threatened the delicate balance of peace on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea’s Hyunmoo-2 missile launch at an undisclosed location in 2017.Credit...South Korea Defense Ministry, via Associated Press April 19, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET SEOUL — Pride and jealousy have driven North and South Korea to engage in propaganda shouting matches and compete over who could build a taller flagpole on their b...

Between 1949 and 1990, a total of 456 atomic and thermonuclear devices were exploded at the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS). Many of the earliest tests were conducted on the surface and in the atmosphere, which spread radioactive fallout across Central Asia. Additionally, five surface tests were unsuccessful and resulted in the wide dispersion of plutonium into the environment.

​Kim Jong-un Uses Party ​Congress to Double Down on Nuclear Program The North Korean leader said his economic policies had failed, but he called his nuclear arms buildup one of the great feats “in the history of the Korean nation​.” North Korean state media released this photo of Kim Jong-un and other officials, said to have been taken on Tuesday, the last day of the Workers Party congress.Credit...Korean Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images...

The North Korean leader said his economic policies had failed, but he called his nuclear arms buildup one of the great feats “in the history of the Korean nation​.”

But as he pledged to advance the country’s weaponry, the North Korean leader also said he did “not rule out diplomacy.”