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Kim Jong Un’s threats of war may not be bluster this time
Several factors are shifting in favour of Pyongyang risking an attack on South Korea
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In recent weeks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made a series of statements that seem to presage a new period of tension and danger on the Korean peninsula.
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When he handed over the presidency seven years ago, Mr Barack Obama warned his incoming successor Donald Trump that the most urgent problem he would face was North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programmes.
He saw those programmes as a completely unacceptable threat to America’s security and world peace, but he had failed to stop them. Now it was Trump’s turn.
