North Korea in the News

My article on North Korea was picked up by Korean media. Been well received, too.

https://www.hapskorea.com/biden-kim-jong-un-and-north-korea-back-in-the-news/

With re-occurring global COVID concerns, and for the United States a disputed election, and recovery plans like the Biden Economic Relief program, we have not heard much in the mainstream media about North Korea. Not until this week, when North Korea broke months of silence in warnings regarding the recent scaled-down military exercises conducted by the United States. and South Korea, and U.S Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd traveling to Asia-Pacific for meetings with Japanese and South Korean counterparts.

North Korea was certainly a top news story following a 2018 summit in Singapore between then-President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, and followed by two more meetings: Hanoi in February 2019, and Panmunjom on the border between the Koreas in July 2019. To some experts, these meetings are now seen largely as photo ops as opposed to meaningful steps toward achieving peace and denuclearization on the Korean peninsula.

Enter the Pandemic, and at least for 2020, we saw little change in U.S.-North Korea relations. On the United States side, the Trump administration all but shifted focus away from North Korea, except to claim success and credit…