This undated picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 16, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a launching drill of the medium-and-long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 at an undisclosed location. KCNA via KNS
Richard Lardner, National Post/AP: Kim Jong Un wants to fulfill his grandfather's wish and reunify Korea under 'a single communist system': U.S. Admiral
Harry Harris Jr. told the House Armed Services Committee that Kim is after much more then a nuclear arsenal
WASHINGTON — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s long-term goal is to reunify the divided Korean Peninsula under his totalitarian government, the senior U.S. Navy officer overseeing military operations in the Pacific told lawmakers Wednesday.
Adm. Harry Harris Jr. said during testimony before the House Armed Services Committee there’s a prevailing view that Kim needs a nuclear arsenal to safeguard his regime. But Harris says Kim is after much more.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 16, 2018
Why North Korea won’t give up its nukes -- Katiana Krawchenko, CBS
Thanks to Trump, strategic patience with North Korea has finally come to an end -- Alex Titus, The Hill
Moon Jae-in's leadership could bring U.S., North Korea breakthrough -- Elizabeth Shim, UPI
Pence prevents breakup of US-South Korea alliance -- Gordon Chang, FOX News
Who's Really Winning the North Korea Standoff? -- Victor Davis Hanson, RCP
The ultimate rent-a-war being fought in Syria -- Thomas L. Friedman, Straits Times
Pull U.S. Troops Out of the Middle East and Put 'America First' -- Daniel L. Davis, National Interest
Turkish public divided over military's alliance with FSA -- Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor
America Has Turned a Blind Eye to the Taliban's Territorial Gains -- Daniel R. DePetris, National Interest
South Africa wakes up to the end of Zuma -- Gavin Du Venage, The National
Zimbabwe: What's next for MDC after Morgan Tsvangirai? -- David Child, Al Jazeera
The Militarized, Adaptable Cartel Spreading Across Mexico -- Jesús Pérez Caballero, War Is Boring/InSight Crime
Does technology threaten democracy? -- Lewis Sanders IV, DW
Special counsel Mueller's Russia probe: Where it stands -- AFP
