North Korea, at a dawn parade on Saturday, 10 October celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), unveiled two new ballistic missiles, highlighting the extent to which Pyongyang has upgraded its arsenal despite the long-range ballistic missile testing freeze introduced after negotiations with the US began in 2018. It is still unlikely that North Korea will begin a new cycle of provocation before the US presidential election; North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who sent US President Donald Trump a letter wishing him a speedy recovery from Covid
- October 13, 2020
- 20:06
KOREAN PENINSULA: Pyongyang Parades New Weapons but Will Still Exercise Caution
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