Kim Jong Un's new year speech may shed light on the North's 'new way' forward

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will give his set-piece New Year speech on Wednesday, an opportunity to flesh out the nuclear-armed nation’s threat to seek a 'new way' forward after the expiration of its year-end deadline for US sanctions relief.

US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone.Pyongyang has been demanding the easing of international sanctions imposed on it over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, while Washington is insisting it takes more tangible steps towards giving them up.

The"new way" was more likely to be an old way with denuclearisation firmly off the table, said Henri Feron, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy in the US."What North Korea refers to as a new path is new in the sense that it will differ from its relatively engaging posture the past two years, but will actually be a return to the posture it maintained notably in the Obama era," he told AFP.

"But we have a lot of tools in our toolkit, and additional pressure can be brought to bear on the North Koreans."Wednesday's speech will be Kim's eighth New Year address, after he revived the tradition started by his grandfather - North Korea's founding leader Kim Il Sung - but discontinued during his father's rule.Getty Images AsiaPac

Pyongyang has been ramping up the pressure with static tests at its Sohae rocket facility and a series of weapons launches, some described as ballistic missiles by Japan and others - which are banned under UN resolutions.

 

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