![]() ![]() Four North Korean soldiers even defected across the border this year, the highest total in almost 20 years. A chilling report released earlier this month noted that North Korea’s prisons are “as terrible Nazi camps,” in part because guards sometimes roll logs down a mountain to kill prisoners. That’s contributed to the sheer suffering of most of Kim’s country, which is already one of the world’s poorest. More than 20 countries restricted North Korea’s diplomatic activities, including expelling its diplomats. The US and the United Nations have imposed harsh new sanctions on North Korea because of its nuclear and missile programs, including a measure on August 5 that prohibited some of North Korea’s exports like iron and seafood. Those failures raised real questions about whether his abilities to hit the US would ever match his harsh threats.īut Kim’s achievements came at a high cost. It’s a remarkable turnaround for Kim, who in March and April suffered repeated humiliations of seeing one of his missiles either explode just a few seconds after launch or barely reach their targets. His military tested its largest such bomb to date, one that was seven times stronger than the bomb America dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.Īnd, as if that wasn’t enough, his hackers launched a cyberattack that disabled hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries around the world. His scientists appear to have overcome a major technical hurdle and created a nuclear weapon small enough to fit on top of one of those missiles, which means he could launch a nuclear attack against major American cities. ![]() He tested three missiles that can theoretically hit the mainland US, including one that could conceivably hit Washington, DC, or New York. None of that should distract from the fact that the North Korean dictator had a very, very good year. President Donald Trump spent 2017 mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for being “short and fat,” a “sick puppy,” and “ a madman.” For good measure, he repeatedly called Kim “Little Rocket Man.” ![]()
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