South Korea may have all the technology and the money, but the North has a purity of purpose, in Mr. Kim’s mind, that will ultimately give it control of the entire Korean Peninsula. “Kim is determined to be a ‘Great Leader’ in his own right,” said Han Sung-joo, a former South Korean foreign minister, who still walks around carrying shrapnel he was hit with as a young boy, when his family was escaping North Korean forces during the Korean War. McMaster, said that the methods that worked so effectively in the Cold War would not apply in the case of North Korea. In recent months, General McMaster has not repeated those lines, perhaps hoping that a lull in North Korean missile testing might provide a diplomatic opening. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThat hope was dashed with the latest, and most impressive, North Korean test.

Source: New York Times November 30, 2017 00:38 UTC