North Korea has always been at odds with the West – and the rest of the world – choosing to live in relative seclusion replying on itself and banning and sort of Western influence within its borders.
Talks to disarm North Korea of its nuclear arsenal have proven to be a backward and forward dance between the highly communist hermit country and the UN, with superpowers like the US and Japan backing it’s rival South Korea in calling for the stop of all nuclear weapons development in the country. Less than a year ago, peace talks had seemed to be taking a promising turn, when North Korea blew up a cooling reactor at its main Yongbyon nuclear facility. Now the North Korean government is planning a nuclear missile launch, and seems determined to have its way.
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