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North Korea
The regime wants to depict North Korea as akin to any other ‘normal’ country
The pariah state’s animators have been working on projects for western firms including Amazon and HBO
With the apparently quixotic exception of Travis King last year, defection to the country has all but ended
For Pyongyang, any opportunity to bolster its position against the United States is worth taking
Kim got nothing in return for King’s release, but it now has one fewer foreign policy headache
Until now both countries have vehemently denied engaging in any kind of arms exchange
The North has always viewed the US as an antagonist determined to instigate regime change
‘None of us know where this is going to end’
Motivations are still unclear, but Private King had been disciplined before the incident
