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Experts: N. Korean Missile Tactic Aimed at Weakening US Resolve

Christy Lee

   WASHINGTON - North Korea's unrelenting missile launches are intended to
   strategically signal to Washington that the North will continue to
   develop weapons and weaken U.S. demand for denuclearization, said
   experts.

   "The strategy I discern is to divide the American side and weaken the
   [U.S.] resolve to force the North to denuclearize," said Douglas Paal,
   vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

   North Korea conducted [1]another missile test on Saturday, its seventh
   launch in a month. The tests were conducted despite a promise that
   North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made in a letter to U.S. President
   Donald Trump earlier this month that the launches will stop once
   military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea are over. The
   drills concluded last week.

References

   1. https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/north-korea-tests-more-missiles-violating-pledge-trump

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