More than international sanctions, the pandemic has failed the strategy of the North Korean leader to continue its nuclear ambitions and economic development in parallel. Consequence: a greater dependence on China
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When it was propelled to the summit of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the aftermath of the sudden death of his father Kim Jong, on December 17, 2011, Kim Jong-one was 27 years old. We could then doubt his abilities to hold the most monolithic regime on the planet. Officially appointed the previous year as the future leader, he had no experience of power; He was not even a member of the Political Office of the Labor Party, the political training of the plan.
The second dynastic succession of the communist world might be less easy for the previous one, when Kim Jong-one had succeeded in 1994 in his father Kim Il-Sun, founder of the DPRK. A military coup, otherwise the collapse of the plan, was “a matter of weeks or months”, “said Victor Cha, former adviser for Asian business at the White House. Although it was not ousted, the “great successor” seemed, at best, to be intended to meet under the tutelage of a regency council.
Ten years later, the diet is still there, and Kim Jong-one has not only survived: he has an undisputed authority, halo start 2021 of the title of “Grand Leader”, placing it on the same rank than his ancestors. And he imposed his presence on the international scene by making his country a nuclear power – even if it is not recognized as such.
With a stolen of ballistic missiles and three new atomic tests, the last, in 2017, finalized the entrance of North Korea into the Nuclear Power Club, the DPRK is seen as a direct threat by the States. -Unis and their allies. The Security Council (including China and Russia) has tightened the economic sanctions of which the country was already under way. Then, after Invectives and reciprocal threats of Pyongyang and Washington, the storm has fallen.
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The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics (February 2018) in South Korea have dedicated interceorean reconciliation and allowed President Moon Jae-in to initiate a dialogue between the United States and the DPRK, which has Leads to a first summit in Singapore (June 2018) between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-one. The second, organized in Hanoi (February 2019), he turned short: Mr. Kim’s offer to arrest Yongbyon’s nuclear power plant, in exchange for the emergence of UN sanctions, was considered insufficient by Washington.
After these two meetings with the President of the United States, an enemy juror of the regime, Kim Jong-One managed to impose his massive silhouette and his juvenile face on the international scene. “Rocket Man”, as Donald Trump nicknamed, achieved the goal of his predecessors: Forcing Washington to recognize the DPRK as the power with which the world must count – and negotiate.
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