How Kim Jong Un Keeps Advancing His Nuclear Program
While U.S. President Joe Biden has left the door open for discussions on eliminating North Korea’s nuclear weapons, leader Kim Jong Un has shown no interest in picking up again.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has shown no interest in resuming talks with the US after agreeing in 2018 to work toward “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” Instead, he has been busy making his nuclear-equipped arsenal bigger, deadlier and better able to strike South Korea, Japan, American forces in Asia -- and the US mainland.
An array of ballistic missiles of various ranges as well as cruise missiles said to be able to hit Japan. (Ballistic missiles fly in an arched trajectory and are unpowered on descent. Cruise missiles can fly at low altitudes and are maneuverable, making them harder to detect and intercept.)