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North Korea’s Limitations Start to Show

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Aug 27, 2015
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The bloodcurdling threats against the South emanating from North Korea are all too familiar, but ironically the repeat performance only underlines the North’s weakness. A changing global landscape for the Koreas, especially weakening Chinese support for Pyongyang, is making the North Korean threat increasingly hollow.

On Aug. 20 North Korea declared a “q…

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