NORTH KOREA - America's Latest Worry

"Why North Korea’s most recent missile tests are worrying U.S. officials" PBS NewsHour 1/31/2022

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SUMMARY:  Over the weekend, North Korea tested a missile that flew so far that it could have reached the U.S. Territory of Guam in the South Pacific.  It is North Korea’s longest-range test since 2017, and seventh such test this month -- the most launched so closely together in the 10 years of leader Kim Jong Un’s rule.  Nick Schifrin reports.

NORTH KOREA - Ruthless Kim Jong Un

"The ruthless rise of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un" PBS NewsHour 6/11/2019

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SUMMARY:  Life in North Korea is difficult for outsiders to imagine.  A new book attempts to pull back the curtain of opacity as it examines the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, who took over from his dictator father when his older brother fell out of favor.  Nick Schifrin talks to The Washington Post's Anna Fifield, author of “The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un.”