North Korea's dangerous game

In May, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates called North Korea’s apparent progress on nuclear weapons and long-range missiles ‘a harbinger of a dark future’. Since then, further confrontational moves by the pariah state have continued to raise tensions on the Korean peninsula. North Korea’s past provocations were viewed as attempts to gain attention and concessions from the outside world. Now, however, it seems to be playing by different rules.

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