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Kim's health is the worst of North Korea's many risks

Content type:: Expert Briefings
Location:: NORTH KOREA
Keywords associated with this article:: Geographic: North Korea AP South Korea

Topical: international relations politics foreign policy security aerospace arms control military nuclear weapons
ISSN:: 2633-304X
Citation:: Oxford Analytica (2023), "Kim's health is the worst of North Korea's many risks", Expert Briefings.
https://doi.org/10.1108/OXAN-DB279675

Friday, June 9, 2023

Significance

No UN condemnation ensued. Separately, South Korean intelligence claims that supreme leader Kim Jong-un’s health has worsened again.

Impacts

Being ignored by Washington might spur Pyongyang to provocation -- or Kim may await Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House.
Collective UN Security Council action against North Korea has now collapsed, as superpower antagonisms have worsened.
The practical value of Pyongyang’s space programme is very limited at present; its main value is prestige.

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