Kim is facing difficulties on various fronts, with floods having ruined farmland, controversy over his succession, and nuclear discussions with the US having come to a halt.
Pyongyang’s leaders see giving up the weapons as political suicide, and Kim has adding to his stockpile of nuclear warheads & missiles after talks with the US President sputtered.
The person illegally returned to North Korea on 19 July across the demarcation line with South Korea, prompting govt to launch a probe into the military unit responsible.
Despite talks with US, China & South Korea, Kim still hasn’t achieved the sanctions relief he wanted in exchange for any offers to scale back North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Two years since a flurry of summits with South Korean President Moon Jae In, US President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping, Kim still hasn’t achieved relief from sanctions.
John Bolton’s memoir ‘The Room Where It Happened’, which releases Tuesday, recounts incidents of 26 February 2019, when President Trump was in Vietnam to meet Kim Jong-un.
Kim Jon Un's shocking act of destruction appears to be a part of a calculated gamble to force the South Korean president to break with US and support North Korea.
The move comes as North Korea has turned a cold shoulder to South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and his offers to restore economic and trade ties between the neighbours.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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