Endless War

Published: May 7, 2020, 4:01 a.m.

North Korea's famous for being a black box, one of the most secretive and authoritarian countries in the world. It has a nuclear stockpile. A history of erratic behavior. And a particular fixation on antagonizing the outside world \u2014 especially the United States. This cycle of antagonism isn't an accident \u2013 the U.S. has played a formative role in the history of North Korea. And North Korea's leaders have been invoking that history from the very beginning.

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