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Podcast: Asia Matters Podcast
Episode: North Korea’s Historic War Strategy Shift, Explained
Description: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has appeared in a slew of new propaganda videos, promoting technological advances in the regime’s nuclear program and issuing warnings to South Korea and its allies. For the first time since the Korean War was paused seven decades ago, the dictator has talked about South Korea as an enemy, rather than part of a peninsula that had to be reunified under the regime, marking a historic shift. As Pyongyang reinforces its military cooperation with Moscow, stepping up support for the war in Ukraine, Kim Jon...