This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 7, 2021 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending the eighth conference of military educationists of the Korean People's Army at the April 25 House of Culture in Pyongyang.
“North Korea will maintain its confrontational status with the United States and harass it by tactically challenging it while making sure it doesn’t cross the line to completely derail its relations,“ Kim Jin-ha, researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification, told AFP. For months, he traded fiery rhetoric with then US president Donald Trump, raising fears of an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula.
“North Korea’s development of its weapons programme, the credibility of the nuclear and missile threat, and the fortuitous alignment of leadership -- Trump, Moon, and Kim -- helped prime the conditions,“ she said. The amicable mood was short-lived: a second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi collapsed over sanctions relief and what Pyongyang would be willing to give up in return.
Officials and analysts say Kim never intended to fully give up his nuclear arsenal, which North Korea has pursued for decades at vast cost in resources and isolation, and is still developing further. The ties between Pyongyang and Beijing -- forged in the Korean War when their forces fought South Korea and a US-led UN coalition to a standstill -- were “a love-hate relationship between two ‘frenemies’”, said Professor Lee of Tufts University.
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