North Korea’s Tyrant Might Have New Reason for All His Missile Tests — Trying Out New Weapons for Russia

Free Korea’s defense minister, Shin Won-sik, holds a rare parley with foreign correspondents as North preps five missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.

AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool, file
President Putin, right, and North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, at Vladivostok, April 25, 2019. AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool, file

SEOUL — North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un may have another more immediate reason for conducting all those missile tests aside from the desire to intimidate South Korea and its American ally.

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