Interested in North Korea? Add North Korea as an interest to stay up to date on the latest North Korea news, video, and analysis from ABC News. The North Korean leader's big curtain-raiser for 2019 comes after a couple of very tumultuous years. Kim hasn't given up on his nuclear weapons, he just says he has perfected the arsenal enough to shift the focus of "socialist construction" elsewhere. Kim sees nuclear weapons as a valuable deterrent to a U.S. military strike.

Source: ABC News January 01, 2019 07:07 UTC