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was seeping into North Korea. Our cover illustrated this by altering a statue in Pyongyang of Mr Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung. Mr Kim senior is showering American dollars and Chinese yuan on his subjects below. In our leader we encouraged the West and China to back North Korea’s capitalists. Sadly the country is now more isolated and wretched than ever.
, shops in Pyongyang rationed staple foods and Kim Jong Un shed tears as he apologised for not freeing people “from the difficulties in their lives”. The only things improving in North Korea are the missiles.In 2017, President Donald Trump vowed to stop North Korea from perfecting a nuclear warhead that could threaten the American mainland, tweeting, “It won’t happen!” But as ourlaid out, it could happen, and might have catastrophic consequences.
in September, the development of which the armed forces had previously declined to confirm. Far from marking a new period of co-operation on the Korean peninsula, Mr Trump’s summit preceded a dangerous new phase in its arms race.
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