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The 33-year-old sister of dictator Kim Jong-un rose to prominence last year with a number of hostile statements towards the West. She branded defectors “human scum” and “mongrel dogs” last year and warned of “invisible enemies” outside the hermit state. Today reports emerged that North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, a body of water that stretches between the two nations. 

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The relationship between Kim Jong-un and the US has been fraught for decades. During Barack Obama’s two terms as President, North Korea conducted 61 missile tests and under Donald Trump 40 were launched in addition to one hydrogen bomb test. Many hope for a new dynamic under President Biden, who was sworn in on Wednesday, but experts believe tensions are set to worsen.

NORTH KOREA is reportedly furious over Joe Biden's inauguration because he is the 'wrong President' for the hermit state and Kim Jong-un, who favoured a Donald Trump victory.

The future of the United States’ relationship with Asia could look very different depending on the outcome of the November 2020 elections. Whoever wins the presidency will drive U.S. engagement around the world, setting policy on numerous global challenges including trade, energy, and security. Under President Barack Obama, the U.S. announced a “pivot to Asia.” Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. clashed with China over trade and technology, with Japan over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, with South Korea over U.S. troops stationed in the country, and with North Korea on nuclear negotiations. Election results will also determine the majorities in Congress and which party will lead congressional committees such as Foreign Relations, Armed Services, Intelligence, and more, helping shape the future of U.S.–Asia relations.  

Why North Korea matters
Speaking up on human rights abuses in the gulag state is not only the right thing to do, but it also will make America stronger.
By Joseph Kim
1:30 AM on Aug 16, 2020 CDT — Updated at 10:58 AM on Aug 17, 2020 CDT
The Dallas Morning News is publishing a multi-part series on important issues for voters to consider as they decide who to vote for president this year. This is the second installment of our What’s at Stake series, and it focuses on foreign policy.
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To most Americans, North Korea is a faraway “gulag state” run by an unpredictable dictator threatening the world with nuclear weapons.

What Does North Korea Want?
BY PATRICK McEACHERN
Over the past year, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un have held three unprecedented summits—in Singapore in June 2018, in Hanoi in February 2019, and in Panmunjom along the DMZ in June 2019. Where the current process of engagement will lead is difficult to foretell, but the basic contours of the discussion are more predictable.
Each of the three summits sparked a flurry of interest from all walks of life, with press outlets meticulously documenting the personal drama and idiosyncrasies of the leaders and their encounters, including their hotel and transportation selections. The summits also sparked a lively debate in the foreign affairs community over the assumed content of the conversations and wisdom of engaging the North Korean leader at all, so it is useful to bring several basic aspects surrounding the dialogue into clearer focus—namely, North Korea’s fundamental concern for national security and the issue of specific economic sanctions relief.

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The Impossible State, which delivers an insider’s account of the failed six-party nuclear disarmament talks and dissects at length the ways the North Korean regime might end – ranging from bad to catastrophic. It’s not for the novice – Cha was a senior member of the administration, which is both his strength and his weakness. The book comes with a heavy dollop of apologia for the Bush years, but push that aside and there’s a healthy serve of research and statistics at the core. Cha says the regime could just as easily lurch on for decades as collapse tomorrow, and neither would surprise him – a conclusion as alarming as any of Donald Trump’s tweets.