The launch of a satellite by North Korea this year could provoke an American military strike against the DPRK, a South Korean expert told NK News in March.

In a wide-ranging interview on the DPRK leadership, ongoing rapprochement between the two Koreas, and Pyongyang’s more long-term goal, Cheong Seong-chang, a senior researcher at the Sejong Institute, warned that the ongoing cooling of tensions on the peninsula might not last.

“Pyongyang and Washington’s position on their satellite launches are radically different, and thus a crisis may arise once again and one cannot say it will not end up with a