As Kim Jong Un marks 10 years in power this week, the world still doesn't quite know what to make of the North Korean leader.
SEOUL, South Korea — As Kim Jong Un marks 10 years in power this week, the world still doesn't quite know what to make of the North Korean leader.
Crushing U.N. sanctions over that weapons build-up and pandemic-related difficulties may be giving Kim the hardest moment of his rule, observers say, but those weapons are no closer to being wrenched away by outside negotiators than they were when Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, died on Dec. 17, 2011. Kim also set aside his father’s trademark “military-first” policy, restored the ruling Workers' Party’s traditional control over the army and engineered small yet gradual economic growth in the first several years.Kim has staged an unusually large number of weapons tests. And four of North Korea’s six nuclear test explosions and all of its three intercontinental ballistic missile tests have happened during Kim’s rule.
The international diplomacy broke down in 2019 when Kim failed to convince Trump to ease tough U.N. sanctions imposed after his run of weapons tests in 2016-17. Kim has since threatened to enlarge his nuclear arsenal and introduce high-tech weapons targeting the United States and its allies.
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