"North Korea is growing anxious as its deadline approaches," said Shin Beom-chul of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Test moratoriumLast month Pyongyang also claimed to have tested a "new type" of submarine-launched ballistic missile -- a potential strategic game-changer. Trump has played down the recent launches, repeatedly pointing to North Korea's moratorium on nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile launches as foreign policy successes for him. North Korea is under multiple sets of international sanctions over its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs and lifting some of them was a key demand of the North's in Hanoi. North Korea has issued a series of increasingly assertive comments in recent weeks as time runs down on its end-of-year deadline.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 28, 2019 10:41 UTC