Today Trump Is Talking to a Different North Korea

The DPRK of 2025 is fundamentally different – and far more dangerous – than when Trump last met Kim Jong Un. - James M. Minnich

In the intervening years, Pyongyang has constitutionally codified itself as a 

• nuclear-armed state, 
• deepened strategic cooperation with Russia, and 
• tightened ideological control at home. 

Kim Jong Un’s nuclear deterrent is no longer a bargaining chip but the constitutional foundation and non-negotiable guarantor of his regime’s legitimacy.
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