How far will North Korea go to get the world's attention?
North Korea has carried out its fifth nuclear test, and Kim Jong Un is smiling.
After a breathtaking run of missile and nuclear tests this year, the North Korean leader is now promising.
With the country's nuclear potential seemingly realer than ever, Pyongyang television sets are relentlessly beaming out the image of their Supreme Leader's grinning visage.
There's no escaping the fact that Kim Jong Un's North Korea presents a complex challenge to a fragmenting world.
Why did the test happen now? What is North Korea hoping to get out of it?
While there is a huge amount of bluster and untruth spun out of Pyongyang, sometimes when North Korean state organs talk, they mean precisely what they say.… Seguir leyendo »