North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests since 2006, and could soon conduct its sixth. The U.S., in response to North Korean tests and threats, has diverted an aircraft carrier strike group to the Korean peninsula. South Korea will elect a new president on May 9, and both front-runners advocate a relatively lenient North Korea policy. The U.S. has shown no sign of withdrawing its military commitment to South Korea, and South Korea is, economically, light years ahead of its northern neighbor. And the North Koreans are pursuing something more feasible than what Islamic State is.”In North Korea, militant propaganda is ubiquitous and shrill.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 01, 2017 11:02 UTC