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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBTW Kim Jong Un tests 'high-tech' weapon in message to the US
North Korea media: Kim inspects new weapon 02:02
Seoul (CNN)North Korea has tested a "newly developed ultramodern" weapon in an event supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, state media said Friday, amid faltering nuclear disarmament negotiations with the United States.
Very little is known about the weapon or whether it is even new, but the test is the latest sign that Pyongyang is prepared to return to a more militaristic relationship with Washington if talks continue to go poorly.
"He's tiptoeing towards a more aggressive posture in negotiations with the US and he's signaling that he's not going to give way and can simply return to his old practices if (the US) don't change their approach," Josh Pollack, senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterrey, told CNN.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/asia/kim-north-korea-missile-kcna-intl/index.html
Seoul (CNN)North Korea has tested a "newly developed ultramodern" weapon in an event supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, state media said Friday, amid faltering nuclear disarmament negotiations with the United States.
Very little is known about the weapon or whether it is even new, but the test is the latest sign that Pyongyang is prepared to return to a more militaristic relationship with Washington if talks continue to go poorly.
"He's tiptoeing towards a more aggressive posture in negotiations with the US and he's signaling that he's not going to give way and can simply return to his old practices if (the US) don't change their approach," Josh Pollack, senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterrey, told CNN.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/asia/kim-north-korea-missile-kcna-intl/index.html
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DemocratSinceBirth
Nov 2018
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Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)1. As an aside...that looks like the corner where Ray-gun was shot.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)2. I changed the GIF
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)3. Hope it wasn't something I said. Was it that corner?
Have a good weekend. 666 is my 3 digit for today. I'd box it....but why? Amirite??
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)4. Un is laughing all the way . . . .
I bet SK is nervous as well as Japan.
underpants
(182,925 posts)5. LMAO
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)6. The world's two smallest men competing to see who's taller.
I get a real "Pinky & the Brain" vibe from them...