Kim Jong-un gives up on Trump and turns to nuclear-weapons build
In a seven-hour speech, the North Korean leader said weapons testing is back on and called the US’s tactics ‘gangster-like’
02 January 2020 - 14:22
Singapore/Seoul — Kim Jong-un is giving up on hopes that US President Donald Trump will lift sanctions anytime soon.
Alongside the North Korean leader’s latest sabre-rattling this week was a stunning admission: efforts to engage the US had failed. Kim’s plan now is to find a way to survive under crushing economic sanctions while building an even stronger nuclear deterrent to force Washington to compromise...
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