Is the U.S. backing Kim Jong Un into a corner?

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Is the U.S. backing Kim Jong Un into a corner?

This is not routine provocation: the DPRK leadership senses the danger it increasingly faces

Robert E. McCoy April 25, 2017

Is the U.S. backing Kim Jong Un into a corner?

North Korean State Media

Considering the fiery state of affairs in the cauldron of Northeast Asia, the chant by the three witches of Shakespeare’s Macbeth seems ghoulishly appropriate:

Double, double toil and trouble;

About the Author

Robert E. McCoy

Robert E. McCoy is a retired U.S. Air Force Korean linguist and analyst/reporter who was stationed in Asia for more than fourteen years. He continues to follow developments in East Asia closely. Mr. McCoy’s book Tales You Wouldn’t Tell Your Mother is now out. He can be contacted via his website http://musingsbymccoy.com/ which also lists his previous essays and has personal vignettes on Asia (Tidbits) not published elsewhere.

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