North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threw down the gauntlet in his New Year address last year by announcing that his country is close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the US.
It did - with not one but three ICBM tests that year. Since then, it has been a roller-roaster ride not only for the two main protagonists, Pyongyang and Washington, but also the rest of the world as the two Cold War rivals traded insults and came dangerously close to blows.
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