North Korea international profile

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 2 years ago

“Only when one is equipped with the formidable striking capabilities, overwhelming military power that cannot be stopped by anyone, one can prevent a war, guarantee the security of the country and contain and put under control all threats and blackmails by the imperialists.”

Aljazeera

Leader of North Korea

28 Mar 2022 4 2

Leif-Eric Easley

Inserted 2 years ago

“The international message behind North Korea's month of missile tests is about price. The Kim regime hears external discussions of its domestic weaknesses and sees South Korea's growing strength. So it wants to remind Washington and Seoul that trying to topple it would be too costly. By threatening stability in Asia while global resources are stretched thin elsewhere, Pyongyang is demanding the world compensate it to act like a 'responsible nuclear power'.”

Aljazeera

Professor at Ewha University in Seoul

30 Jan 2022 6 3

Yang Moo-jin

Inserted 2 years ago

“The ongoing string of tests should be aimed at highlighting the North's increasingly diverse missile arsenal, and essentially staging a show of force against the United States. Pyongyang is likely to ratchet up the intensity of the tests and possibly fire an ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missiles] or other powerful weapon when it marks the 80th and 110th anniversaries of the birthdays of Kim's late father and grandfather in February and April, both significant holidays in the country.”

Aljazeera

Professor at the University of North Korean Studies

28 Jan 2022 5 5

Leif-Eric Easley

Inserted 2 years ago

“North Korea is trying to lay a trap for the Biden administration. It has queued up missiles that it wants to test anyway and is responding to US pressure with additional provocations in an effort to extort concessions. North Korea should be offered humanitarian assistance once it is willing to diplomatically reengage. But its threats should not be rewarded with international recognition or sanctions relief.”

Aljazeera

Professor at Ewha University in Seoul

14 Jan 2022 6 3

Leif-Eric Easley

Inserted 2 years ago

“North Korea's so-called hypersonic weapon is not technologically ready for deployment. But state media hyped the latest test, personally supervised by Kim Jong-un, as 'final verification' of a new military capability. This looks like classic North Korean box checking, claiming success of an agenda item from Kim's earlier speech in an attempt to bolster political legitimacy and increase diplomatic pressure. Nonetheless, Pyongyang's ability to threaten its neighbors continues to grow, underlining the urgency of U.S.-South Korea-Japan cooperation on missile defense and the need for greater accountability in China and Russia's enforcement of UN sanctions.”

Aljazeera

Professor at Ewha University in Seoul

12 Jan 2022 10 2

Andrei Lankov

Inserted 2 years ago

“North Korea is not going to surrender its nuclear weapons, no matter what. The only topic they are willing to talk about is not the pipe dream of denuclearization but rather issues related to arms control. Kim may benefit, however, from the Washington-Beijing confrontation, which increases North Korea's strategic value to China. Instead of growth, North Korea will have stagnation, but not an acute crisis. For Kim Jong-un and his elite, it's an acceptable compromise.”

Koreatimes

Professor at Seoul's Kookmin University

14 Dec 2021 5 3

Leif-Eric Easley

Inserted 2 years ago

“North Korea is trying to coerce the world into accepting its violations of UN Security Council Resolutions as if they are normal acts of self-defense. This is part of the Kim regime's efforts to achieve de facto international recognition as a nuclear power and receive concessions just for resuming contact.”

Aljazeera

Professor at Ewha University in Seoul

19 Oct 2021 3 3

Benoit Hardy-Chartrand

Inserted 2 years ago

“It really illustrates very vividly the extent to which North Korea is willing to do almost anything it can to make sure it has as powerful a deterrence as possible and to make sure the regime is able to survive in the face of what it sees as a 'hostile' US policy.”

Aljazeera

Adjunct professor of political science and international affairs at Temple University in Japan

19 Oct 2021 4 4

Park Won-gon

Inserted 2 years ago

“The North Korean leader's speech boiled down to his ambition to gain the country recognition as a nuclear-armed state. Given that North Korea stresses the double standards, Kim's [Kim Jong-un] speech means South Korea and the U.S. should not take issue with Pyongyang's weapons development as it is part of the North's self-defense.”

Koreatimes

Professor of North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University

12 Oct 2021 4 5

Kim Song

Inserted 2 years ago

“We will continue to consolidate our self-defensive deterrent for safeguarding the national security in the face of the geopolitical environment of the Korean Peninsula and the balance of power in the region as well as ever-straining international relations.”

Koreatimes

North Korea’s UN envoy

11 Oct 2021 3 3

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 2 years ago

“The United States has been frequently signaling that it's not hostile to our country, but there has been no behavioral ground to believe that it is not. For our descendants we need to be strong. We need to first be strong. The military threats our country is facing is different from what we saw 10, five or three years ago. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula will not be easily resolved due to the U.S. Our enemy is war itself, not a certain country or forces like South Korea and the U.S. But our external efforts for peace does not in any way mean giving up our rights to self-defense.”

Koreatimes

Leader of North Korea

11 Oct 2021 4 5

Chol-su Jo

Inserted 2 years ago

“The UNSC [U.N. Security Council] ... put on the table the issue pertaining to the DPRK's exercise of sovereignty. This means an open ignorance of and wanton encroachment on the sovereignty of the DPRK and a serious intolerable provocation against it. This is a denial of impartiality, objectivity and equilibrium, lifelines of the UN activities, and an evident manifestation of double-dealing standard. North Korea has never acknowledged the partial and illegal U.N. 'resolution' that seriously encroaches upon the right to existence and development of sovereign states. I express strong concerns over the fact that the UNSC amused itself with the dangerous 'time-bomb' this time. The weapons tests have never posed any threats or harm to the security of the neighboring countries.”

Koreatimes

Director of the international organization department at the North's foreign ministry

03 Oct 2021 5 3

Lim Eul-chul

Inserted 2 years ago

“North Korea was looking to use its weapons development as a means to make room for diplomatic manoeuvering as well as enhancing military posture. In a way, the North's recent behaviour is very predictable. They had signalled military actions and are now executing them step by step.”

Aljazeera

Professor at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University

28 Sep 2021 1 3

Shin Beom-chul

Inserted 2 years ago

“North Korea is following its own path of seeking more from the U.S., such as sanctions relief or the suspension of the South Korea-U.S. combined military exercises, and the missile launches were part of this basic strategy. Frankly speaking, few countries support the Korean Peninsula peace process. With North Korea and China urging the U.S. to concede more, Washington perfunctorily approves it, but it is not yet ready to ease sanctions. As there is little chance that the relevant countries will change their stances, the peace initiative is unlikely to make progress if South Korea continues to pursue it in the same fashion.”

Koreatimes

Director of the Center for Diplomacy and Security at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy

14 Sep 2021 5 7

Park Won-gon

Inserted 2 years ago

“The U.S. appears to be taking advantage of its nuclear talks with South Korea as a means to ensure cooperation - in other words, to have Seoul on Washington's side. South Korea is seen by some as the weakest link among the Washington-Seoul-Tokyo trilateral security structure, so the Biden administration is trying to keep the country in check in its policy toward North Korea. In that sense, the two sides have held multi-level talks.”

Koreatimes

Professor of North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University

12 Sep 2021 4 6

Troy Stangarone

Inserted 2 years ago

“While sanctions relief may not be on the table, the inclusion of an easing on the importation of luxury goods in North Korea's demands may be revealing. It suggests that while the large-scale smuggling of items such as coal or petroleum documented by the U.N. Panel of Experts is something that the regime has been able to maintain, it has faced more significant challenges in acquiring the luxury goods that are needed to maintain the loyalty of the elite. It also suggests the potential for growing discontentment among the elite at the current situation.”

Koreatimes

Senior director of congressional affairs and trade at the Korea Economic Institute

19 Aug 2021 1 3

Park Won-gon

Inserted 3 years ago

“The announcement [of North Korea not participating at the Tokyo Olympic Games] came quickly, given that the event is scheduled in late July. Many other countries are yet to decide their participation in the Games even though the COVID-19 situation in Japan is unlikely to turn around dramatically. Given North Korea's belligerent rhetoric and series of missile launches in recent weeks, the announcement could be interpreted as a message that North Korea will not respond to the joint efforts between South Korea, the U.S. and Japan to reach out to Pyongyang for talks.”

Koreatimes

Professor of North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University

06 Apr 2021 5 6

John Demers

Inserted 3 years ago

“North Korea's operatives, using keyboards rather than guns, stealing digital wallets of cryptocurrency instead of sacks of cash, are the world's leading 21st century nation-state bank robbers.”

Reuters

U.S. Assistant Attorney General

17 Feb 2021 4 4

Hong Soon-jick

Inserted 3 years ago

“North Korea isn’t going to totally abandon its nuclear arms, but it could offer a freeze to seek a long-term solution. And as long as it keeps away from something provocative to draw attention, its chance of getting some economic help from outside might just improve.”

Aljazeera

North Korea researcher at Seoul National University Asia Center

30 Dec 2020 2 3

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 3 years ago

“We will continue to strengthen war deterrence for self-defense to deter, control and manage all dangerous attempts and threatening acts, including ever-growing nuclear threats, from hostile forces.”

Koreaherald

Leader of North Korea

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“Only when one is equipped with the formidable striking capabilities, overwhelming military power that cannot be stopped by anyone, one can prevent a war, guarantee the security of the country and contain and put under control all threats and blackmails by the imperialists.”

“It really illustrates very vividly the extent to which North Korea is willing to do almost anything it can to make sure it has as powerful a deterrence as possible and to make sure the regime is able to survive in the face of what it sees as a 'hostile' US policy.”

“We will continue to consolidate our self-defensive deterrent for safeguarding the national security in the face of the geopolitical environment of the Korean Peninsula and the balance of power in the region as well as ever-straining international relations.”

“North Korea was looking to use its weapons development as a means to make room for diplomatic manoeuvering as well as enhancing military posture. In a way, the North's recent behaviour is very predictable. They had signalled military actions and are now executing them step by step.”

“North Korea's operatives, using keyboards rather than guns, stealing digital wallets of cryptocurrency instead of sacks of cash, are the world's leading 21st century nation-state bank robbers.”

“North Korea isn’t going to totally abandon its nuclear arms, but it could offer a freeze to seek a long-term solution. And as long as it keeps away from something provocative to draw attention, its chance of getting some economic help from outside might just improve.”

“We will continue to strengthen war deterrence for self-defense to deter, control and manage all dangerous attempts and threatening acts, including ever-growing nuclear threats, from hostile forces.”

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