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#Kim Jong-un

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Han-bum Cho
Han-bum Cho

“Kim [Kim Jong-un] has officially declared his intention not to engage in any dialogue with the Yoon Suk Yeol administration. It's a clear indication that Pyongyang will walk away from inter-Korean relations. If you read between the lines, what Kim meant is that his regime will achieve its ultimate goal of unification through the use of force, not through peaceful means. It seeks the collapse of South Korea.”

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Senior analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification
31 Dec 2023 6 2
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Harry Harris
Harry Harris

“The U.S. intelligence community assesses that KJU [Kim Jong-un] views nuclear weapons as the ultimate deterrent against foreign intervention. KJU declared last year that he would be willing to employ nukes more broadly in wartime, and last September, he stated unequivocally that he would never give up his nukes and the North Korea's status as a nuclear weapons state is irreversible. We must not relax sanctions or reduce joint military exercises just to get North Korea to come to the negotiating table. This is a fool's error. While we hope for diplomacy with North Korea to be successful, we must recognize that hope alone is not a course of action. The quest for dialogue with the North must never be made at the expense of the ability to respond to threats from the North.”

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Former United States Ambassador to South Korea
03 Jan 2023 2 4
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Harry Kazianis
Harry Kazianis

“The war in Ukraine means that North Korea will be able to test all sorts of weapons ― hypersonic missiles, submarine-launched systems, nuclear weapons and of course ICBMs ― and pay no penalty as Washington is distracted while Russia and China are unwilling to help. The Kim Jong-un regime will certainly test as much as they can during this unique time period, driving Washington and its allies to increase their own military capabilities. That means not only are we in for an arms race in Northeast Asia, but the stage is set for Japan and South Korea to actively consider developing and deploying their own nuclear weapons. We are far beyond a simple arms race at this point.”

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Senior director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest
06 Oct 2022 7 3
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Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder

“If we consider the lessons learned from Hanoi, one possible lesson Kim Jong-un may have taken from the experience is that from his perspective, the United States did not take sufficiently seriously the idea that the North was negotiating from a position of strength. North Korea is asserting that its laws make denuclearization negotiations a non-starter. As a result, it is hard to imagine how the United States and North Korea will be able to frame a diplomatic negotiation process around a set of commonly held objectives. A logical course of action would be to further strengthen the North's military program so that its nuclear capabilities would be regarded as undeniable and irreversible. Once North Korea's Kim believes he has adequately achieved those objectives, he might in principle then be ready to return to diplomatic negotiations with the United States, but from an even stronger position than the North's Kim was in when he met with Trump in Hanoi in February of 2019.”

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Senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank
15 Sep 2022 5 4
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Hyun Seung-soo
Hyun Seung-soo

“Even [leaders of] Russia did not see it coming [recognizing the independence of two Russia-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine] - and then, the North reportedly offered to send its workers to the region. Over the past 20 years, Russia's diplomatic strategies on North Korea and the Korean Peninsula have not changed much. But I believe it is now on the verge of a big shift. In the short run, there seems little incentive for the North to make such decisions, which have drawn international criticism. But in the long term, what it can gain from Russia, one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, is enormous. North Korea is probably expecting Russia's support at the U.N. … It is very likely that Russia will offer it. I have heard from sources in Russia that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may visit Russia this year.”

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Research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification
31 Aug 2022 4 1
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Yoon Seok-youl
Yoon Seok-youl

“There's no reason to avoid meeting [Kim Jong-un]. However, if we are not be able to show any results, or results are just for show and does not have actual results in denuclearisation… it's not going to help the relationship between the two Koreas progress.”

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South Korea President-elect
07 May 2022 (approx) 3 3
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Park Kyung-mee
Park Kyung-mee

“President Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently exchanged letters and reminisced about the past five years (of Moon's tenure). They shared the common view that efforts should continue for peace on the Korean peninsula and exchanged cordial greetings for the people of the South and the North. We expect the letters, which will be the last one between Moon and Kim, will serve as a stepping stone for inter-Korean relations.”

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South Korean presidential spokesperson
22 Apr 2022 4 2
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Korean Central News Agency
Korean Central News Agency

“Kim [Kim Jong-un] ordered the test because of the daily-escalating military tension in and around the Korean peninsula and the inevitability of the long-standing confrontation with the U.S. imperialists accompanied by the danger of a nuclear war.”

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Report by North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
24 Mar 2022 6 3
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Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett

“With North Korea, we have to remember that the most severe sanction that has been implemented was the closing of the North Korean border with China, something that Kim [Kim Jong-un] did to his country (rather than being a sanction imposed from outside).”

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Senior international defense analyst at the RAND Corporation
21 Jan 2022 4 2
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Harry Kazianis
Harry Kazianis

“Unless he begins testing them again, North Korea will never rise to the status of something that Joe Biden will use political capital to tackle. I do think at this point the North Koreans just threatened to test ICBMs [inter-continental ballistic missile] and nuclear weapons if they do not see any progress in their goals - getting Joe Biden's attention and the possibility of sanctions relief. The Biden administration will not respond to the specific threat beyond the "normal tough-sounding statements. However, if Kim [Kim Jong-un] does test an ICBM or nuclear weapon, that would violate Washington's unofficial red line that such tests mean more pressure on the DPRK.”

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Senior director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest
20 Jan 2022 7 2
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Soo Kim
Soo Kim

“Kim [Kim Jong-un] voluntarily placed the moratorium as an enticement to spur progress in negotiations with the U.S. When it became clear that he would not get his way in the negotiations, Kim had alluded to the possibility of lifting the moratorium. So it was a matter of when - not if - that the DPRK would lift its nuclear and missile moratorium.”

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Former CIA analyst now with the Rand Corp
20 Jan 2022 3 2
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Leif-Eric Easley
Leif-Eric Easley

“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.”

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Professor at Ewha University in Seoul
12 Jan 2022 10 2
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Moon Sung-mook
Moon Sung-mook

“In terms of developing new weapons, there is no such concept of 100-percent completion in development, which means upgrades and tests of the weapons should be followed. … As North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has said that the country is developing many different weapons, including tactical nuclear weapons and a nuclear-powered submarine, the country is expected to continue missile and other weapons tests. North Korea is expected to stick to its existing stance that they will keep going on their way in developing weapons for the country's self-defense, and their weapons tests are not aimed at provoking other neighboring countries.”

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Senior researcher at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy
06 Jan 2022 4 3
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Moon Sung-mook
Moon Sung-mook

“There was no message from Kim Jong-un toward South Korea or the U.S. in the ruling Workers' Party of Korea plenum in late December. Pyongyang has been remaining unresponsive to the Moon government's call for an end-of-war declaration and the latest missile launch is just another sign that there are no changes in Pyongyang's stance on the matter, that they want withdrawal of what they call hostile policies by South Korea and the U.S. such as joint military drills. But the U.S. government has said the U.S.-South Korea joint drills in March would be conducted as scheduled.”

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Senior researcher at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy
05 Jan 2022 7 5
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Shin Jong-woo
Shin Jong-woo

“The missile launch could also be used as a bargaining chip when the North engages in negotiations with the South's next government after the South elects a new president in March. There have been many signs of economic hardships in the North including the news that Kim Jong-un gave fish to Pyongyang residents as presents. In that respect, the missile launch is also aimed at strengthening internal solidarity among the people of North Korea.”

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Senior researcher at the Korea Defense and Security Forum
05 Jan 2022 5 3
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Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll

“The big focus on rural development is likely a populist strategy. Overall, Kim [Kim Jong-un] might be aware that revealing sophisticated military development plans while people are suffering food shortages and harsh conditions outside of Pyongyang might not be such a good idea this year.”

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Journalist and founder of NK News, a Seoul-based website that tracks North Korea
31 Dec 2021 2 3
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Go Myong-hyun
Go Myong-hyun

“Kim Jong Un has always had a natural instinct for power. He had the most important quality to be the leader of North Korea, his obsession about power. People thought for Kim Jong Un to become his own man it would take some time, but you know, it only took like three or four years for him to eliminate everybody who could be influential or powerful enough to rival him.”

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Research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies focusing on North Korea
17 Dec 2021 3 3
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Andrei Lankov
Andrei Lankov

“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.”

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Professor at Seoul's Kookmin University
14 Dec 2021 5 3
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