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25 Mar 2021

“This latest North Korean missile launch is most likely a reaction to U.S. President Joe Biden's downplaying and seeming to laugh off their weekend missile tests [Pyongyang firing two cruise missiles into the West Sea]. The Kim regime, just like during the Trump years, will react to even the slightest of what they feel are any sort of loss of face or disparaging comments coming out of Washington. … In the months ahead, we should expect the North Koreans to test bigger and more advanced missiles and a fiery response when the Biden North Korea policy is announced, which likely will be a pressure strategy to get the Kim regime to give up its nuclear weapons.”

Harry Kazianis
Harry Kazianis
   Director, Analyst, Political Analyst
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Senior director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest
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